Word: worth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Government makes a profit of 50% on each one-cent piece coined. The Lambert Plan calls for the coining of 90 billion dollars worth of one-cent pieces. The profit, 45 billion dollars, will be used to wipe out the national debt...
...Professional scholars" aren't worth their salt as long as they keep everything they learn to themselves. They need somebody to "put the stuff over...
Believing that a look at the past is worth two at the present, the pacifist Christian Century (nonsectarian weekly) last week began printing a condensation of the best available study of parsons' wartime behavior - Preachers Present Arms, by Sociologist Ray Hamilton Abrams (Round Table Press). When he wrote his book six years ago, Sociologist Abrams was skeptical of clerical calm-downs between wars, pointed out that western civilization possesses "perhaps the greatest war book known to man"-the Bible...
...bumper year for tackles, and two of the headliners, Nick Drahes and Tom Healey, lead the parade. Drahos of the Big Red, prominently mentioned for All-America honors is a fixture on the team, but Healey has only a slight edge over such worth- ies as George Sommers of Dartmouth and Bob Tierney of Princeton...
Another Tiger, capable Jim Worth, and Dartmouth's Dan Dacey, receive top ranking in a season which produced few good guards. Worth, Dacey, Dunbar of Cornell, and Burnam of Yale were the best of a poor lot. Worth's experience and Dacey's speed put them on the first eleven...