Word: worth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...misdoubt I have gone too far. My optimist has carried me away and led me to overshoot the mark. The last paragraph is not true. The man who politely but firmly declines to sit in an old-fashioned chair to learn: is he worth educating? Can he be educated? Who dare answer? Frederic Cunningham...
Business was booming at the Verrerie Marquot, a glass works at Fains-les-Sources, halfway between Paris and Strasbourg. The factory was turning out $50,000 worth of glassware a month. With his furnaces producing at full capacity, Gustave Marquot, the 29-year-old owner, last week was studying plans for expansion...
Ninette de Valois had seen that too. When Mrs. Hookham asked, "Is it worth spending more money on Margaret's lessons?"De Valois answered simply: "Nothing that you can spend on that child will be wasted. She has a future...
...November Advocate contains a couple of pieces worth any undergraduate's attention and all but the poorest's thirty-five cents. It will also be of clinical interest to admirers of Jerry Kilty, since he has contributed two articles aggregating more than half the total wordage...
...sleeping gridiron, often interviews athletically minded men and tries to convince them of the value of a Harvard education. This writer offers a humble suggestion to Mr. Lamar, to wit: That the grass grows green in the Boston home pasture, and that diligent search in season may he worth a lot of hoeing on frost stiffened ground...