Word: worth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Football players Jim Damis and Jim Joslin were more successful in their attempts, each making one try (worth three points) with Joslin kicking one two-point conversion. Six of the Barbarians' nine points came on two penalty kicks (given instead of yardage after an infringement...
...drilling experimental wells, and surveying. It will not be long, they say, before the whole coast line from the U.S. border to Culiacán. in Sinaloa state, will be one big garden. The project can hardly help paying. Last year the crops grown in the Yaqui valley were worth more than the construction cost of the dam and irrigation system...
...seldom knew defeat in the show ring. When she did lose, she was always in double harness, her talent slowed by a teammate. Going through her paces alone, she had no peer. All told, the "Million Dollar Hackney Mare" won about $25,000 in prize money, including $2,800 worth of silver plate and a trophy room full of cups and ribbons. Crowds cheered her entry into show rings as if she were Sarah Bernhardt...
THIS week the eyes of most art-loving Texans are on oils, not oil. With Houston the center of the American Federation of Arts' 1957 convention, and Dallas, San Antonio and Fort Worth standing by to receive the convention's airlift tour, the four cities' museums, galleries, private homes and department stores have turned themselves into showcases for art, displaying everything from such private collections as Social Leader Ima Hogg's Colonial Americans to a sampling of just about every living Texas painter and sculptor. But the standout exhibit is the handsome tribute, co-sponsored...
...recited his lessons to prostitutes. These hard times remembered in tranquillity result in a strange sort of book. The atmosphere is as febrile as a manic ward on the upbeat. The poor and aged commit suicide every day, but the tombstone firm does not prosper because the monuments are worth more than they are sold for. The characters in Obelisk are not especially odd, but the times make everyone seem to be living off the top of his head. Ludwig divides his time between beautiful Geneviève at the insane asylum and a levelheaded, strong-bodied girl acrobat...