Word: worth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...returned to Bolivia before the Chaco War broke out, was put in charge of munitions manufacture. Then he visited Argentina on a secret mission and organized Bolivian espionage behind Paraguayan lines. Dionisio Foianini rushed to the Chaco when the war ended, persuaded Army officers that expropriating $17,000,000 worth of Standard Oil properties would be a popular political move, set up a State Petroleum Board to exploit the appropriated fields...
...considered experts on the subject. And, perhaps because they look bored, their artistic views are seldom consulted. Last week the San Francisco Chronicle published a "Guard's-Eye View of the Arts" by one who was not consulted but spoke up anyway. He was 26-year-old Worth Graham Seymour, a rolling stone reporter, seaman and law student who has worked for the last month in the Palace of Fine Arts at the San Francisco Fair...
...swings on earth - swings of 15 and even 25°. The pattern of temperature change following the 16-day cycle varies from place to place and from month to month, but Dr. Abbot believes that the value of 16-day temperature prediction to industry and agriculture would be well worth the trouble and expense of making month-by-month prediction charts for each interested locality...
Such a solution is most satisfactory to all concerned. From the student's point of view it would be ideal if he could readily contact his tutor or section-man. From the instructor's point of view it is very worth-while for him to be close to the libraries and laboratories which the University has to offer. And from the University's point of view, it is desirable that its younger teachers take a larger part in its cultural activities, as well as reside in closer proximity to the University. In essence this housing plan is the logical extension...
...were expected from Doug Anderson, the captain of the 1941 Freshman combine and an all-New England man at Exeter, but his shoulder was put out of commission in the Maryland game and he wrenched his ankle last Saturday and thus he has had little chance to prove his worth...