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Word: worth (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...obscure, and the play is wildly incoherent. With cery strains from a vibra-harp introducing the scenes and occasionally backing the dialogue, the play is something for a Grenwich Village theatrein-the-round. Even in this setting, however, the play might be poorly received, since the obscurity seems hardly worth penetrating and often embarrassingly silly. In the Summer House, in fact, has many inadvertently funy moments, and the frequent laughter of the audience need be traced neither to insensitivity nor to pscudosophistication. wistful and pretentious, the whole business seems at times a wicked parody of the Capote-McCullers school...

Author: By R. E. Oldensurg, | Title: In the Summer House | 12/4/1953 | See Source »

...young women who may not rank impressively by the criteria we have so carefully established but who none the less seem to the Committee to possess interesting personalities or to have cutting edges to their minds." A four-year study of the "gambler's group" proved they are worth the risk. Their academic record is equal to that of the student body as a whole...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Radcliffe Must Sell Harvard Education in the Provinces | 12/1/1953 | See Source »

...much of an increase in world production is needed to raise the backward nations to a minimum standard of decent living? The world needs at least another $25 billion worth of food a year and another $15 to $25 billion in housing, medicine, clothing, etc.,-an increase of 7% to 10% in present world production of consumer goods and services. This is the estimate of Economists Wladimir and Emma Woytinsky, a husband & wife team who have spent five years compiling an exhaustive (1,268 pages) study, World Population and Production, published by the Twentieth Century Fund...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PRODUCTION: 2000 A.D. | 11/30/1953 | See Source »

...Different Color. In Paris, police charged 18 slaughterhouse workers with stealing 20 million francs' ($57,142) worth of fats from the horses they slaughtered, selling it to soap factories, using the money to bet on the races...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 30, 1953 | 11/30/1953 | See Source »

...solution similar to last years, with students receiving half-price tickets, will be reached. During the 1952-53 season all men with athletic coupon books were given half-price tickets for the Boston Arena. If the Garden and the H.A.A. reach terms, a bursar's card will be worth one-half the price of a seat...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tickets for All Athletics But Hockey to Be Free | 11/30/1953 | See Source »

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