Word: worth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...University Choir and the Radcliffe Choral Society will combine under the direction of Professor G. Wallace Wood-worth '24 to give three performances of their traditional Christmas Service...
...fast tax write-offs, i.e., permission to depreciate the cost of a plant for tax purposes in five years instead of the 20 normally required, industry has met the challenge. Despite huge civilian production, the U.S. has been able to build up a national stockpile with $5.7 billion worth of copper, aluminum and 73 other vital raw materials, nearly four-fifths of the amounts needed...
...dropped out of Howard County Junior College after one semester to groom her 4-H animals for this year's shows, had her first taste of glory last February. Then, one of her steers won the grand-championship at Fort Worth's Southwestern Exposition, and was sold to Texas Publisher Amon Carter for $6,000. Sue dutifully turned the money over to her family, hard hit by the drought. At Chicago last week, Hotelman Albert Pick bid $20 a lb. for Sue's steer, highest price ever paid at the Chicago show.* Sue, who paid...
Applied Science. In Greenmeadows, New Zealand, a 13-year-old schoolboy was nabbed by police after he spotted a fireworks display in a shopwindow, focused the sun's rays through a magnifying glass, set off an explosion that destroyed ?16 ($44.80) worth of merchandise...
...answer is cryptic, as befits a man whose time is worth "$10,000 per day." (Satevepost Dec. 5). "Dear Mr. McMasters," he said, "This is in reply to your letter of November 3. May I call to your attention what the Merriam Webster Dictionary has to say about collective nouns? Even old reporters can learn new tricks. Sincerely, John Fox." He must have been very busy as his letter bore the date of Dec. 1, nearly four weeks after mine was sent. I thanked him for his kind directive to an old reporter and told him that I had consulted...