Word: worth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Just what the Crimson is risking is anybody's guess. A team with much potential, but with many early season losses, the nine most probably will solidify its record. It is worth remembering, however, that the Crimson's only other southern trip ended in a southern trip ended in a loss to Penn and a Washout at Princeton...
...Plymouth, belonging to Authony I. Van Wye '54, Borges' roommate, is not worth repairing, according...
...pure factual objectivity which most newspapers have sought has often been a will-o'-the-wisp . . . For example, few news articles worth reading can be shorn of all adjectives. Yet whenever a reporter writes of the 'beautiful' Rita Hayworth, 'scowling' John L. Lewis, 'Millionaire' Charles E. Wilson or 'Red-hunt ing' Joe McCarthy, he is influencing the reaction of readers in a somewhat nonobjective way, even though he can defend his choice of words with undisputed proof. Honest newspapermen will admit, also, that they unavoidably influence reader reaction by [the placement...
...Arthur, 31, a pilot for Transocean Airlines, who has been flying a C-54 between California and Japan on the Korean air-freight run. The pilot, said Braumoeller, had been bringing in from Japan each trip as much as four pounds of uncut heroin, worth $32,000 in the underworld. After MacArthur was charged, his lawyer told Agent Braumoeller: "I don't know what he needs a lawyer for. What are we going to deny when you come to court with pictures of the whole business...
...What a misfortune!" they said in the street. "And the boat was loaded!"-with a cargo worth more than 500 lire, a vast sum to simple fishermen. The owner of the cargo could sooner have gathered figs from thistles than money from these destitutes; but in loyalty to their code of honor the Malavoglia would not shirk the debt. "We are ruined," said Grandfather 'Ntoni quietly-and began with all his humble means to resist the fact...