Word: worth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...project as their university had ever undertaken. They wanted to microfilm the Vatican Library and bring it back to St. Louis. Neither Historian Lowrie Daly nor Librarian Joseph Donnelly knew "whether the project was possible, or even whether the Vatican would consider it. But we thought it was worth a try, so we shoved it into channels to see what would happen." In December, "much to our amazement," the Vatican granted permission. Since then, the project has achieved proportions that Fathers Daly and Donnelly never dreamed of. At first they thought the cost of filming would be about...
...invitation," Jim Vaus had stumbled over to the prayer tent and fallen on his knees. To Reach the Unreached. Since then, Wiretapper Vaus has been Evangelist Vaus. Following the footsteps of his fundamentalist preacher father, he travels from pulpit to pulpit in a panel truck with $18,000 worth of electronic equipment. He sets it up in churches, and rivets
...pictures of his old works, Picasso searched in vain for the name of his Spanish model, explaining: "We called her 'La saucisse' [ the sausage]." Then, spotting a rare 1904 engraving, Le Repas Frugal, he said: "I didn't know they had this. It's worth a fortune." But what held Picasso's attention longest was a plaster Madonna from his boyhood home. Exclaimed Picasso: "We had this statue in Malaga. Actually, it's a statue of Venus which father bought in the flea market. He painted on the tears, draped the figure in plaster...
...were turning to communism neither because of their teachers nor their courses. Rather, the environment, assisted by the Communist Party's own, Popular Front--now aimed specifically at liberal intellectuals caused their temporary allegiance to the party. Granville Hicks writes. "The party used the intellectuals for all they were worth, but its leaders were aware, as most people today are not, that there were limits--beyond which most of them could not be used." A merely intellectual bond with the Communist party was not enough. For as soon as the intellectual ties that bound many college professors and students...
...with all recent literary endeavors, gttf 1 does not require criticism, but eight or nine or ten inches of review. To say that gttf 1 is not worth one dollar would be snide, but much worse, naive. No, gttf 1 is atavistic, primitivistic, fancifulistic, and satiristic. What more...