Word: worth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Israel Night at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House in the third week of the Middle Eastern crisis. Three thousand people, predominantly American Jews, had paid for their admission in advance to the tune of $475,000 worth of Israeli bonds to hear Baritone Robert Merrill, Concert Pianist Eugene List, Singer-Pianist Hazel Scott and Cantor David Kusevitsky. Israel Night, its sponsor, the New York Metropolitan Council of B'nai Brith, had announced, was part of a six-week bond-selling drive, which will be climaxed on Dec. 6 by the Sixth Annual Hanukkah Festival in Madison Square Garden...
...about $15 million a year for specialized Israeli projects, e.g., schools, hospitals, youth groups. And beyond all charitable activity, the Bonds for Israel drive (the income from its 4% bonds is subject to taxation) has raised since 1951 the staggering sum of $275 million. The total breakdown: $800,000 worth of bonds sold every week. These bonds, say Bonds for Israel officials, are popular with gentiles as well as with Jews because of Israel's promising growth potential...
...graduate enrollment at some time in the future." Dean Greep feels that the Harvard system of dental instruction--in which the oral diseases are looked at not from a purely dental standpoint, but from the consideration of their relation to the entire human organism has proved its worth beyond all doubt and that the Dental School could increase its present enrollment without lowering the existing high standards of instruction...
...possibility of precipitating a Third World War, a war that would be so horrible as to render trifling by comparison the Russians' brutal treatment of the Hungarian patriots. With a deep sense of regret it must be conceded that a morally demanded defense of embattled Hungary is not worth a Third World War and its havoc to man kind...
While there are risks in the system, considering the confusion that could arise if two or three students overslept after an over-night snowfall, it's worth a desperate try. The rules of the game would require strict observation--but rules are Good Things if they have positive effects...