Word: worth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Most of the music belonging to the Band, which was stored in a room adjoining the stairwell, was destroyed or damaged beyond use by the fire and water. Officials of the Band said yesterday that the music was worth about $10,000, since it included virtually all of the Band's medleys, which were hand copied from exclusive manuscript scores...
...barrel ball game, the toss of a ball into a barrel won a prize. But someone stood by to slip a bouncy false bottom into the barrel when the marks began to win too much. The hanky-panks (honest games) also made a profit; the slum (prizes) are never worth the price of a turn...
...fingered, nerve-torn bridge experts competing for the Life Masters Pair Gold Cup at Miami Beach's Americana Hotel. In a game whose fascinating frustrations can bring out the worst of man's nature, he remained bland and smiling. In a game where a peek can be worth two finesses, he carelessly held his hand within easy view of roving eyes. He actually treated kibitzers as humans ("I might as well love them. I'm married to them"), and he went out of his way to describe his partner, a perky strawberry blonde named Helen Sobel...
...sophisticated marchesa. Living in a Florentine convent, they talk, dream, paint, write, compose, writhe in the agonies of their love affairs, while the sisters of the convent go calmly about their business and the great art of Florence forms a soothing backdrop. Author VanOrden's plot seems hardly worth the time. What is best about her flashingly literate book is the handsomely sketched Florentine setting, against which the bright chatter of her young Americans seems like a volatile gas, dissipated before the old city is even aware of its presence...
While conceding that colleges must educate great numbers of people, Pusey emphasized "that the final worth of a university is to be measured not by the number of its students... but by the number and quality of its advanced scholars...