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Word: worth (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...British Critic Francis Toye wrote of Macbeth, it is "a splendid and uncommonly interesting failure"-very much worth reviving and seeing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Macbeth at the Met | 2/16/1959 | See Source »

...floor. All Lucius had to do was stretch down and touch it, but Miss Schroeder, moving with a speed unnatural to her bulk, quickly retrieved it. And soon, after a moment of stillness, he heard a quiet, but unmistakable, "Oh!," and he knew it had really been worth...

Author: By Bartle Bull, | Title: Love Finds a Way | 2/14/1959 | See Source »

Because of a breakdown in Trinity's electrical scoring device, touches had to be determined by chalk marks, a long and laborious process. In an attempt to expedite proceedings, three touches instead of the usual five were worth a point...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fencing Squad Wins Against Trinity, 16-11; Team to Face UConn | 2/12/1959 | See Source »

WASHINGTON, Feb. 9--The Eisenhower administration today formally unveiled a five-year program of federal school aid, aimed at helping to provide five billion dollars worth of facilities...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Dulles Takes Leave of Absence To Have Operation, Recuperate; Reuther Asserts Russia Gaining | 2/10/1959 | See Source »

...CHECKS are increasing. In fiscal 1958 the FBI investigated $8,000,000 worth, including one check drawn on the "East Bank of the Mississippi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, Feb. 9, 1959 | 2/9/1959 | See Source »

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