Search Details

Word: worth (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

Earlier in the afternoon the freshman "D" team lost to Middlesex, 3 to 2. At first singles, the Crimson's Pete Stone dropped three quick games to Harvey Allen, but in the number two position Jeff Eaton barely lost three extra-point games to Gerry Farns-worth of Middlesex. Walter Blanchard lost 3 to 1 at third singles, while Yardling fourth and fifth men, Ed Wadsworth and Wally Stimpson, won 3 to 0 and 3 to 2 respectively...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: '59 Squash Splits | 1/12/1956 | See Source »

Abramson defeated Merom Brachman '58, of Lowell House and Fort Worth, Texas, who was elected vice-president...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Council Picks Abramson as '56 President | 1/10/1956 | See Source »

...subjects of the Advocate's manifestoes may not interest the reader, at least its fiction, which continues to overshadow the poetry this year, proves well worth reading. John Ratte's "Love Story" is by far the most outstanding piece. Its temper is unusual for the Advocate, whose contributors often seem bent on merely displaying to the world the sensitivity of their souls. Ratte neither sinks into a morass of hypersensitive depression, nor, though he is highly imaginative, does he lean on the grotesque. The story can perhaps best be described as a complete reversal of the typical Saturday Evening Post...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Harvard Advocate | 1/10/1956 | See Source »

...domestic and foreign products, and are therefore not protective. If you exclude these, then the figure for Britain in 1954 would be 3.5%, which makes a difference to the comparison. Tariff levels are certainly important, but surely what counts is the end result. In 1954 Britain bought $12 worth of U.S. goods per head of population, while the U.S. bought $3 worth of U.K. goods per head of population. JOHN W. RUSSELL Director General British Information Services New York City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 9, 1956 | 1/9/1956 | See Source »

...soldiers still excite his respect and imagination: "There were no excuses, no grumbling, no shirking, no lying. There was no intrigue, no apple-polishing, and no servility." Not until two years had passed did they put the seal of approval on the young subaltern. It was a loyalty worth having in the frontier wars of the '30s, when hostile tribes got their kicks from mutilating English prisoners and staking them out on the ground...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Soldier's Trade | 1/9/1956 | See Source »

Previous | 306 | 307 | 308 | 309 | 310 | 311 | 312 | 313 | 314 | 315 | 316 | 317 | 318 | 319 | 320 | 321 | 322 | 323 | 324 | 325 | 326 | Next