Word: worthes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sheer intellectual worth, there isn't a department of Harvard which nears the Law School. Whether its graduates keep counsel with Dupont or bend Roosevelt's ear, they represent a perfection in training that has gone far in maintaining Harvard's greatness as a university...
Fred Heckel and Charley Lutz collected 21 points between them, and most of these markers came in that hectic last half drive. Lutz tallied six baskets and two free throws, but this does not tell all of the story of his offensive work. He was worth many more points to the Crimson as he literally ran circles around Northeastern's Jim Connolly...
Every year at least 250 trusting students in Chem B dig their last dime from their wallets and put it through a myriad of chemical tortures. The final product is 250 little silver balls, worth 3 cents apiece being all the silver there ever was in the dimes. Then all this rich metal is handed docilely ever to the authorities, who realize about $300 every century on the deal...
Last week, without a splurge of advertising (not in character), the store began selling out its $287,000 stock-on-hand at 20% reduction. Mr. Charles thought three weeks would clear the shelves; $7,000 worth of recently-ordered plum pudding worries him not at all. He has a customer for the name, the goodwill, the futures contracts, the trademark and the trucks...
...make a fortune. The year is 1890. On a farm in western Pennsylvania he schemes a partnership in a sidehill coal "bank," marries the farmer's pretty daughter, a schoolteacher, stamps out the last of his poetic impulses. At 34 he owns two big coal mines, is worth a million...