Word: worth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...TIME clearly stated in the preceding sentence that it was referring to an axle-weight or weight-distance figure." The point would have been restated more clearly if TIME had said that a man who "drives a four-door Plymouth . . . pays 34-64? worth of gas taxes and fees per ton to move his car over 100 miles of open road." Thus, on a national basis, a Plymouth owner pays nearly three times more per ton to move one ton of his car 100 miles than does the owner of a 60,000-lb. truck...
...supply $150 million worth of goods, including coal, rolled steel, copper, zinc and aluminum, four-fifths on credit, and to hand back 33 requisitioned plants...
...with the cash. No Canadian theatrical event had ever attracted such critical attention and acclaim. Drama critics flocked to the opening night (TIME, July 27) from most of the important U.S. and Canadian newspapers and magazines and went away chorusing praise for British Star Alec Guinness and Actress Irene Worth, the Canadian cast, and the direction of Tyrone Guthrie, from London's Old Vic. Wrote Author Nicholas (The Cruel Sea) Monsarrat, a guest critic for the Ottawa Citizen: "You can rate [it] with . . . the Passion Play at Oberammergau or with the yearly season of plays at Stratford on Avon...
Since last April, when the garden opened, its sculpture has been well worth looking at. Maillol's recumbent nude, The River, lies with her hair touching the surface of a pool; in a dominant center position stands a roughly molded, magnificent bronze by Pablo Picasso, Shepherd Holding a Lamb, which proves that Picasso can be a lot more forceful in 3-D than in some of his two-dimensional painted abstractions. There is also Jacob Epstein's majestic, reposeful Madonna and Child, an anguished Horse by Italy's Marino Marini, and a skeletal abstraction, Double Standing Figure...
...through the ages have darkly -and vociferously-suspected that they do. They cannot possibly see how a few straps of leather, sewed together and called a shoe, can justifiably cost $50; how a few sequins and a wispy veil, stuck on a postage-stamp hat, can be worth $80; or how any dress can cost $300 or more. To the cynical male, the answer is only all too obvious: the value of women's clothes is determined only by what silly women (and acquiescent men) are willing to pay for them...