Word: worth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...best. Britain offered to drop its legal blockade of Iran's oil, asked in return that an impartial third party be chosen to fix the compensation for Anglo-Iranian. The U.S. added its own bonus: a promise to purchase $130 million worth of Iran's oil, $50 million of the amount to be advanced immediately on account...
Some 13,000 paying customers ranged along the course were soon getting their money's worth. Roaring up the beach straightaway on the first lap, the pack hit close to 115 m.p.h., slowed to 60 for the first turn. Some cyclists failed to hit their brakes hard enough, approaching the curves, and skidded against the railings. As they jockeyed back into the path of their onrushing rivals, officials frantically waved red warning flags, and the crowd squealed...
Plowing the Ground. Through Houston's advance guard sometimes argues with Chillman's conservative taste, no one argues with his results. The museum collections have grown to a solid $3,500,000 worth of treasures. Manhattan's Samuel Kress Foundation will soon add another 33 old masters. And work is going ahead on a new wing to the white limestone building that will provide 3,000 sq. ft. more of exhibition space when it is finished this fall. Best of all, says Chillman, Texans are using the museum; the 1952 attendance was more than...
...mathematics and philosophy, finally chose math, with brilliant results. Looking back on his youth, Norbert Wiener tries hard to strike a judicious balance. He still admires the standards of scholarship and devotion to intellectual matters he learned from his father. He cannot help agreeing with papa that it was worth learning geometry, Greek, Latin and German "at an age when most boys are learning trivialities." But, he adds, "my boyhood was not all cakes...
...prestige program," in broadcasting circles, is a show that abounds in a specific type of intelligence: it is intelligently conceived, intelligently produced and aimed at an audience with a reasonably high intelligence. It is seldom sponsored, for any intelligent sponsor knows that reasonably intelligent audiences are hardly worth spending money on. Such a program is Gunsmoke (CBS Radio, Sat. 9:30 p.m., E.S.T...