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Word: worthes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dealings with the Führer, Mr. Chamberlain seems to think that the saving of a million lives was well worth the surrender of England's honor. His conferences with Hitler at Berchtesgaden and Godesberg read like the diary of a young lady crossing the Atlantic for the first time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 7, 1938 | 11/7/1938 | See Source »

...ended when Chairman C. E. Groesbeck of Electric Bond & Share agreed to file integration plans in keeping with the holding company ''death sentence'' (TIME, Oct. 24). Last week the industry poked a hole in the dam that has held back some $3,000,000,000 worth of replacements and expansions in the last two years. On the face-saving excuse that the utilities must be geared for national defense, 16 potent utility financiers on the National Defense Power Committee agreed to place "immediate orders'' for new equipment of 1,000,000 kw. capacity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Immediate Orders | 11/7/1938 | See Source »

John Golden's revival is well worth a trip to the Colonial because a great American actor is playing in a fine American play...

Author: By V. F. Jr., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 11/2/1938 | See Source »

John C. Yule, Kirkland House Janitor, last night routed two bandits who had broken into the room of Neil E. Rawlinson '27 3G and recovered approximately $300 worth of clothing and accessories, as the pair fied in an automobile...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: JANITOR AT KIRKLAND HOUSE ROUTS BANDITS; GETS GOODS | 11/1/1938 | See Source »

...obvious from the fact that Mr. Curley is a veteran political buccaneer and Mr. Saltonstall is not. Election of the latter will mean not so much a victory for reaction as one for clean government, and in view of the Tammany, Hague, and other primitive organizations it is worth arguing that clean rule must precede progressive rule. In this campaign, victory in which lies with the independent voters, integrity--not progressivism--is the issue. Although perhaps not enough independent of State Street, Mr. Saltonstall is honest and sound...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STRAIGHT--OR CURLY? | 11/1/1938 | See Source »

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