Word: worth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...players themselves pay most of the expenses, but as Capt. Hal Churchill says, "We want to maintain a sport which is open to all in the University. If this necessitates foregoing financial support, it is worth...
...small grey statuette of an Eskimo is among the several thousand dollars worth of still unclaimed property recovered by Cambridge police last week from the apartment of Miss Margaret E. Canty, a former secretary in the Mineralogical Library...
Police had expected that a Harvard museum official would examine the statuette and some books from the apartment yesterday, but detectives said no one came. The soapstone figure has patches on it where there had apparently been two small labels, and it was speculated that the piece, possibly worth several hundred dollars, belongs to a museum or private gallery...
Several co-workers remembered that Miss Canty had given a series of "moderately wild" parties for graduate students and persons working in the Geological Department. She drove a battered car worth around $200 to work and dressed "on the poor side of average." Because of this, they said, there was some speculation as to where she got the money for the parties; but no one seriously suspected anything at the time...
...least one item of Harvard property, a book entitled Treasures of the Earth, was identified yesterday by two professors of Mineralogy, police said. A small soapstone statuette of a "Modern Eskimo," probably worth at least several hundred dollars, will be examined today by a staff member of the Archaeology Museum to see if it was taken from the museum...