Word: worth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Speaking about the ACLU, Milstein said that "they didn't actually feel Wang was worth debating." Milstein emphasized that his club "obviously doesn't support Wang's views," but felt that the segregationist was entitled to state them...
Fortunately for him, there is little chance that the third of these difficulties will become a reality, since Dean Elder, and it is suspected, Dean Bundy, feel that the teaching experience is very important and worth-while--for the teaching fellow. The second problem is presently undergoing extensive consideration by the Faculty and in a few years it is quite likely that the Ph.D. program will definitely be limited to three or four years. But the graduate student will continue to face the first problem until the Faculty takes some definite steps to teach the teaching fellow to teach...
...second-largest carrier (first: American Airlines), took another step into the jet age. Last week it ordered ten Douglas DC-8 long-range and eleven new-type, Boeing 720 medium-range jet aircraft to be delivered in 1960. Total cost: $100 million, to be added to the $175 million worth of DC-8s ordered for delivery in 1959. To finance the new jet order, United got an additional $100 million in credit from a syndicate of 36 banks headed by Manhattan's First National City Bank...
...slowdown has idled millions of dollars worth of drilling equipment. Humble Oil, which vies with Magnolia as the third biggest offshore producer (12,115 bbl. a day), has only twelve rigs operating in the Gulf now, v. 16 during the first ten months of this year. The powerful CATC oil combine-composed of Continental Oil, Atlantic Refining, Tidewater and Cities Service-last week was working only 15 rigs, v. 19 in August...
After discarding both introspection and scientific dissection to gain an understanding of the soul, Miller called for self-identification by location. "Neither measurement nor introspection can give the true measurement of man's worth," Miller commented, "Man knows himself by the company he keeps...