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Word: worth (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...want to thank TIME for giving its attention to the speech of Connecticut Senator Thomas Dodd, protesting the unwelcome and unwise visit of Khrushchev to the U.S. [Aug. 24]. One speech by Senator Dodd is worth a dozen by the muddleheaded liberals who think we can compromise with evil and still keep our honor and our freedom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 14, 1959 | 9/14/1959 | See Source »

...that sent shudders of horror down Republican spines, and for that matter, down the spines of many of Michigan's industrial workers who are no strangers to income tax forms. As the tax squabble dragged on for months, even some Democrats and union people began to doubt the worth of Williams' plan. Even when the Governor had a chance to let the voters decide between an income tax and a 1% "use" tax, to be piled atop the existing 3% sales tax, he balked -possibly because polls showed people favoring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MICHIGAN: Soapy's Solution | 9/14/1959 | See Source »

...words had the authority of success. Last week he announced details of the sale of 'his new TV series, Sweet Success, to the Independent Television Corp. for international syndication. Douglas has also peddled enough other new shows to land enough business for his production company (estimated net worth: $2,000,000) to keep it busy for four years. The Douglas operating formula, E+E=$$$ (education+ entertainment = dollars), was paying off, and if the Douglas critics did not like it, they could lump...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Sweet Success | 9/7/1959 | See Source »

...true, as the saying goes, that a picture is worth ten thousand words. But it depends on who is looking through the range finder. Photographer Carl Mydans has been making picture history for LIFE for nearly a quarter-century, and in many a picture has made words seem superfluous. Yet sooner or later a man must speak or write. Mydans, living and working in a time of violence, has seen more of history than most men, and recorded so much of it that immunity to ordinary feeling might seem a natural result. But his time, too, has come to write...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Heart Behind the Eye | 9/7/1959 | See Source »

...light through the mist startlingly beautiful. With the help of this brilliant graphic technique, a haunting guitar score, and the talented stock company of players who have turned up in all recent Bergman films. The Magician manages to fascinate as it confuses, demonstrates that even inferior Bergman is worth sampling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Sep. 7, 1959 | 9/7/1959 | See Source »

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