Word: worth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Perkins expressed a similar opinion with regard to the housing problem. He asserted that "When the students have looked into the room situation, they will conclude that it is not worth the trouble...
...Kutis the championship soccer team alone is worth the price, even though none of his Undertakers undertake. Best of the lot is Center Forward Bob Rooney, 27, a beat-pounding St. Louis cop. who was a crack high school football player and for five seasons a baseball farm hand for the Cardinals. Soccer, says Rooney, gives him the biggest boot: "It's the speed and the pretty pass work and the extra little amount of roughness. I'm talking about really topnotch teams, though. Most people in this country see sandlot games that just look like...
...Alleghany Corp. and New York Central Railroad. After quietly selling all but 28,500 shares of Central common (TIME, Dec. 23), Young sold 27,300 of his remaining shares last month to take tax loss of more than $100,000, is left with only 1,200 shares, worth about $20,000. He also sold 30,000 shares of Alleghany, is left with only 17 common shades, but still holds big block of preferred...
TENNESSEE GAS Transmission Co., nation's longest pipeline system, will go into manufacturing of solid rocket fuels and solid-propellant rocket engines. It is closing deal to swap $6,000,000 worth of stock for control of Grand Central Rocket Co. of Redlands, Calif., which is building third-stage rocket for Vanguard earth-satellite...
Sooner or later the genuine novelist discovers that his bread and butter depends on the quiet desperations that lie imbedded in the lives of most men and women. How he handles them is one measure of his worth. Texas-born William Humphrey, 33, has learned his lesson early. Alongside a fine book of short stories (The Last Husband and Other Stories), he can now place a first novel that shows how extraordinary the ordinary can be. Home from the Hill tells a story that will be largely familiar to every small-towner. What takes it well beyond village gossip...