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Word: worth (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this is really quite dull, and unfortunately most of the blood and-thunder afficionados will be disappointed by the obvious fakery which transpires in the action scenes, of which there are all too few in the first place. You conclude, then, that No Sun is not worth 120 minutes of your valuable time? Well, you're wrong again. What saves No Sun in Venice is that it's cool, and for this reason alone you should see it (actually, I must admit that Mlle. Arnoul is quite fascinating, and this probably constitutes another reason...

Author: By Frederick W. Byron jr., | Title: No Sun in Venice | 3/2/1959 | See Source »

...Cambridge police are looking for a woman driver who backed a car into the window of the College Specialty Shop at 6 Holyoke St. yesterday at 6 p.m., causing an estimated $150 worth of damage...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Police Seek Woman Driver | 2/28/1959 | See Source »

...University must first ask itself: is science worth teaching to the non-scientist? The answer seems definitely yes. On the one hand, Harvard graduates are socially critical people, and trite though it may sound, a rudimentary knowledge of science helps provide insight in dealing with political and social issues which scientific developments continually thrust upon us. Just as important, however, is that Harvard's claim to turn out graduates with a modicum of education seems only justified if students are introduced to the basic approaches of science...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Program for Natural Sciences | 2/26/1959 | See Source »

...thousands of farm families that had none. REA did its job, and well: now more than 95% have such service. The necessity for a federally subsidized REA system has obviously decreased with REA success, yet REA has continued to grow as a dug-in interest, representing assets, loans, etc., worth billions and often generating as much political as electrical power...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: A Great Debate | 2/23/1959 | See Source »

...should've brought my camera," drawled a gangling Virginia youngster as he strolled into Theodore Ficklin Elementary School in Washington's bedroom suburb of Alexandria one morning last week. But the only crowd worth a snap was the throng of reporters and cameramen on hand for the third Virginia city's peaceful integration (the other two: Arlington and Norfolk) since Governor J. Lindsay Almond Jr. ordered orderly acceptance of the inevitable (TIME, Feb. 9). Result: in Alexandria 2,300 white pupils mixed easily with nine Negro newcomers, amiably greeted them aboard school buses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SOUTH: Creeping Realism (Contd.) | 2/23/1959 | See Source »

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