Word: worth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...program, keeping track of thousands of thirty and forty year loans, would be of epic size. A great quasi-Social Securities office would have to be set up, and with an inevitable upward rise of secretary salaries and of business equipment, the plan could cost more than it's worth...
Basically, McCurdy's and the team's effort was to support its three of four consistent runners with the depth necessary to win meets. Benjamin and Thompson were two seniors of whom McCurdy could expect a reliable performance, and the season more than established their worth...
...measure the structural-material erosion of missiles at hypersonic speeds. With a second division making radios and navigational facilities for the CAA's airways-improvement program, Topp turned a profit of $879,974 on sales of better than $10 million last year, and has a backlog of orders worth...
Henry Adams had the arrogance of his ignorance. To William James he railed at the failure of man to acquire "a single vital fact worth knowing." He was obsessed with the American fallacy that life was some kind of inside story that an enterprising philosopher-reporter could crack wide open: "We may some day catch an abstract truth by the tail, and then we shall have our religion and immortality...
...concert so satisfying for the audience. The singers were at their very best in songs which are familiar, performing them with a combination of vigor and perfection which fully realized the qualities which make these songs, from "Men of Harlech" to "Bulldog! Bulldog! "so popular and appealing. They were worth doing, and they were certainly done well...