Word: worthiers
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...finished his coffee and walked out, glancing--for lack of a worthier subject--at a passing Yard cop who had shed his coat in deference to the early June heat. The sight of the shirt-sleeved Yard cop made Vag realize that it was going to be a hot summer. With a nine o'clock every morning, and each class meeting four times a week, summer school was going to be more work than fun. Vag wondered if it were worth the effort. He ran his fingers through his thinning hair and decided that...
...reserve vessels were taken on chiefly as an eye-and-ear auxiliary for regular Coast Guard ships. Only lightly armed, they sometimes went against orders and engaged in singlehanded scuffles with the enemy, emerging more sorry than successful. They proved worthier for port security, training, rescue missions in offshore disasters...
...chemical laboratory, however, proved worthier of the historic hall. In still recent times it became a leading chemical research center under such men as Richards, Sanger, and Baxter. The laboratories moved to sumptuous Mallinckrodt and Converse in 1928, but Ec A students in Boylston 24 still wonder what the faucets...
...Charles Beard and Robert Morss Lovett, neither of whom has ever received such an award because they have insisted too strongly on what they felt was truth. From abroad John Maynard Keynes, Harold Laski, or Ernest Bevin, of whom with their brilliance, achievement, and human leadership would be far worthier than last year's choice of Tory Lord Halifax. From America young Walter Reuther, who has pointed a new path in labor-capital relations, or the more established leaders of labor such as David Dubinski and Sidney Hillman. Thomas Hart Benton, Grant Wood, Paul Robeson in the arts and Clifford...
...symbols and makes them perform for the expression of his ideas if he has any. I've found this figure useful to express what is both the policy of my paper and my own ideas and such as he is he is my own. Would that he were worthier of the very flattering tribute he received at the hands of TIME. My thanks to TIME and to Mr. Deringer for pointing out a similarity that I had not been aware of. Indeed there is nothing new under...