Word: worth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...within a year, their land will be expropriated and paid off in 20-year government bonds bearing 4.5% interest. According to Castro's estimate, made on a television show, the bond payments would range from $15 to $45 per acre, just one-fourth what the land was worth a year...
...other cities are clamoring for major league franchises, declared they would "favorably consider" a third major league composed of "an acceptable group of eight clubs." Said Baseball Commissioner Ford Frick: "I firmly believe we will have a third league within five years." Likely applicants: New York, Buffalo, Dallas-Fort Worth, Minneapolis-St. Paul, Seattle, Mexico City, Montreal, Toronto...
...further innovation will be a new contract covering 15 meals per week, giving the student $14 worth of food for $13.30. The price of a contract for 21 meals a week has been lowered 55 cents to $16.95. On this contract, a student will be able to get meals worth...
...sacrificing contact with students seems to have been worth it to him, for he is doing what he wants to do. "It's a good life," he concludes...
...pitchers, also, have developed to a high degree of competence. The consistently fine moundsman who is Ed Wadsworth this spring bears no resemblance to the wild man who was Ed Wads-worth a year ago. His won-lost record currently stands at 4-2, and his earned-run average is a remarkable...