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Word: worth (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chief engineer of the Parks Division of the Metropolitan District Commission and supervisor of the project, reported that "near Boston, the day-to-night temperature drop is sufficient to change poor skiing to good skiing and with the shortness of the season in mind we thought the investment highly worth making...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Blue Hills Ski Center Will Open After Holiday | 12/1/1949 | See Source »

Unverferth, acting for the Student Council had recommended to HAA Director William J. Bingham '16 that enough local gamins be let into home games to fill up the empty end zone seats. He said Bingham told him that the kids are more trouble than they are worth unless very carefully chaperoned...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Council Urges More Gamins At Grid Tilts | 11/30/1949 | See Source »

...memorial, an ornamental terrace and sundial, honors Governor Thomas Dudley of Massachusetts Bay Colony, one of the College's founders. Reached by stone steps starting between Wiggles worth A entry and Lamont, the memorial also consists of two semi-circular stone sists of two semi-circular stone benches benches located behind the Class of 1680 Gate on Massachusetts Avenue...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Dudley Memorial Near Lamont Library Completed | 11/30/1949 | See Source »

...middle income. This time, besides being wittily urbane, both are lawyers. The determined deadpan whimsicality of their relationship is indicated by the fact that he calls her Pinkie and she calls him Pinky. Hepburn's elegantly arranged bones and Tracy's assurance as an actor make them worth looking at in any movie, but the stars are called on for some aggressive cuteness in this one. Item: during a courtroom duel between them, Pinky is forever dropping a pencil so that he can ogle Pinkie's legs and exchange intimate messages with her under the counsel table...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Nov. 28, 1949 | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

...says Ernest Hemingway in his introductory puff to this novel of Italy in the '30s, "just ram through it." Hemingway is wrong in his warning about where the "rhetoric" is to be found-it comes in the middle, and in cascades-but his advice is still worth taking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Cure for Silvestro | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

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