Search Details

Word: worth (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...report further discusses what it calls "the hidden issue of morality" as a factor necessitating the limit on week day hours. "More than likely, it is predominantly the 3.3 per cent who are using these afternoon hours (five times a week) in the pursuit of pleasures worth publishing," the report speculates. the present system, accordingly, encourages "moral infractions...

Author: By Mark H. Alcott, | Title: Council Committee Asks Extension Of Friday Night Parietal Deadline | 11/6/1959 | See Source »

...when its best acquisitions have naturally been used for its grand opening was ill-advised. This show is for the most part composed, unfortunately, of minor works and it is hard to see how such a big, but unsatisfying display will convince Boston's millionaires that modern art is worth purchasing for local museums...

Author: By Ian Strasfogel, | Title: Salute to the Guggenheim | 11/5/1959 | See Source »

...there are worth while things is this show, a few engaging works here and there which reveal new or accustomed brilliance in the styles of major moderns. A Mondrian Composition in his familiar pure style looks as neat and as pleasing as the calm pictures of his seventeenth-century fellow country man, De Hooch...

Author: By Ian Strasfogel, | Title: Salute to the Guggenheim | 11/5/1959 | See Source »

Much Ado About Nothing. Delightful subplotters John Gielgud and Margaret Leighton make the play's dull main plot well worth sitting through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA,TELEVISION,THEATER,BOOKS: Time Listings, Nov. 2, 1959 | 11/2/1959 | See Source »

...corporations-including such giants as General Electric, General Motors and Standard Oil (New Jersey)-bank with Morgan Guaranty. The U.S. Government leans on Morgan Guaranty as one of the principal dealers in government securities. The bank annually sends out more than 9,200,000 dividend checks worth $1 billion for corporations, takes care of investing $6.5 billion in trust funds. Morgan Guaranty runs pension funds for such big corporations as Johns-Manville, Kennecott Copper, Philip Morris, the New York Times. It runs them well. Alexander's current appraisal of the stock market is one of caution; the bank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BANKING: The Big Banker | 11/2/1959 | See Source »

Previous | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | Next