Word: worth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...days of Daguerre, Morse and Mathew Brady, but still, in Smith's opinion, the best for scenic photography-was smashed beyond repair. A second of these cameras, tripod and all, went to its doom from the top of Rainbow Falls. But the third more than proved its worth in the Bitterroot Mountains, where the 40° below temperature would have played hob with roll film...
...Dalmia's white-pillared house in New Delhi. Dalmia, clutching two small gold idols, was carted off to jail while the house resounded to the piercing wails of his wives. The charge against one of the world's richest men: embezzlement of $4,200,000-worth of government bonds from his own Bharat Insurance Co., keystone of his empire...
...Hunter) was a success in London, where the cast-including Sir John Gielgud, Sir Ralph Richardson, Dame Sybil Thorndike and Irene Worth-was dazzling. On Broadway, where the cast is merely good, the play's chances seem slighter. A prettily draped Dorsetshire study of has-beens and never-weres, a Chekhov-flavored and slightly watery custard, A Day by the Sea is often nicely written, sometimes neatly observed. But it shows no very personal talent or original insight...
...passenger-car divisions with fenders, body panels, deck lids and doors. Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical Corp. will spend $90 million to expand its Ravenswood, W. Va. sheet-and-foil plant, add to other facilities in Maryland, Louisiana and Washington. New Jersey Bell Telephone Co. decided to put out $100 million worth of new securities over the next two years to keep up with the growing population and record construction boom...
...good looks, which actually mean nothing except that we feel they're necessary, which is actually pretty significant. After introductions, you'll both snow each other so well that, after you dig yourselves out months later, nobody will know who snowed whom, whether being snowed-in together is worth it, or when the thaw is coming...