Word: worth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lawyer's fees and payment of debts have cost him $750,000, Beck last week told Seattle Times veteran Labor Reporter Ed Guthman, "but my net worth is closer to $1,000,000 than it is to $300,000." Apart from his $50,000 annual pension from the Teamsters, Beck's income depends on a flourishing real estate business, which he conducts from the basement of the big, rambling Seattle home that he built with Teamster funds (later returned) and sold to the Teamsters Union for $163,000 ("I get by fine and dandy there...
...added tribute goes to Actress Leighton, it is for a certain marvelously sustained manner: she is all hoity-toity airiness and verve. Though the rest of the production, barring George Rose's lively Dogberry, is much of a piece with the rest of the play, both are well worth putting up with for the sake of the stars...
FORD STOCK SALE has been postponed by Ford Foundation, which planned to market 2,000,000 shares worth $160 million at current market prices. Final decision by foundation, which owns 34,132,239 shares, or 62.2% of all Ford stock, will not come until at least November...
...makes politics immensely the more serious; it could be the spur to a radicalism almost frenetic, hysterical, insane--though Nietzsche's phrase seems more appropriate: "a higher history than all history hitherto." The orthodox have always talked as if losing the hope of immortality would trivialize or vitiate the worth of life altogether. But their opponents might well reply that quite the opposite is true: eternity is only "shortened," as it were--the fate of one's soul, one's hopes for "eternal happiness," for salvation, that is to say, remain at least as pressing as ever. It's just...
...eternal happiness," I suspect, in a literal sense. It would be an insipid life of everlasting boredom, as wits like Shaw have often pointed out. Indeed it is the fact of death that gives value to life; only the certainty that the temporal series is finite imparts any worth to a given point or segment...