Word: worth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...great religions of the East. The second aim of the section is to present the personalities of religion on the basis that the news cannot be understood without knowing the people who make it. This includes both the leading figures and the lesser lights whose works and words are worth recording. These stories may deal with lonely, isolated missionaries (e.g., Albert Schweitzer, TIME, July n, 1949) with prelates such as Pittsburgh's Episcopal Bishop Austin Pardue, who trains prospective ministers for his diocese by having them work in steel mills and coal mines (TIME, Dec. 31, 1951), or they...
Comic Jimmy Durante, who once carried $100,000 worth of insurance on his celebrated nose, had reason to regret letting the policy lapse. While rehearsing a TV show with Schmaltz Pianist Liberace, Jimmy had a long-overdue accident, best described in his own words: "There's this piano scene. I'm playin' a duet wit Liberace. So I hits two notes, he hits two notes. Then I say, 'In a competition, you got to use all your weapons.' So I starts to play wit my nose. So Liberace comes over and accidentally touches the piano...
Made ultracautious by previous fiascos, Drs. Penn and Dowdy are not even calling their procedure a "cancer test," and they insist that it should be used only under strict hospital or clinic conditions and along with other procedures. But, clearly, they hope it will prove its worth as soon as the bugs can be worked...
...have seen that the city's curve of smog concentrations matched the curve of deaths from heart and respiratory disease. Each day the center receives filters, coated with air pollutants collected by the same process in 23 other U.S. cities, for analysis and comparison. Right now, the Fort Worth filters are tan from wind-borne topsoil. Those from Detroit and Los Angeles show that, at rush hours, the lead content from automobile exhausts is near the limit of human tolerance...
...practical offers from Harvard Square merchants (made) to draw students into their stores" . . ." to know their merchandise and services better"--"Each coupon describes its one or more offers in specific detail; there are NO hidden strings attached"-- "probably you won't use every coupon . . . but more than half are worth from $1.00 to $11.25 each." Obviously, no student is expected to "maximize his interest" by using every offer; some necessarily have a special appeal...