Word: worthing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hardly worth a 90-mile drive to and from Fitton Field, Worcester, yesterday afternoon to find out just why big league baseballers are so much better than collegiates. The pros looked not much better in the field, not much better with the bat, and not much trickler. In fact, the Boston Red Sox were beaten 3-2 by Holy Cross...
...praising easy ones. The fact is that at Harvard there are no courses which are easy in the absolute sense. Some are easier than others, and some are of more value than others to the average student; but none are simple or valueless. With this in mind their relative worth can be approximated; and the criteria used include the organization of course material, its interest to a well-educated person, and zest with which lecturers and instructors impart their pearls of knowledge...
...Presbyterian Church of Collingswood, N. J., a quiet commuters' town near Philadelphia, is worth $250,000. For five years this church's pastor was Rev. Carl Mclntire, 31, a boyish, athletic Oklahoman who was one of Dr. Machen's star pupils at Princeton Theological Seminary, followed him into the rebel Presbyterian Church in America. All but 100 of Collingswood's 1,200 Presbyterians went along with their eloquent pastor in his Fundamentalist beliefs, but they stopped short of becoming full-fledged constituents of the rebel Church. When a handful of loyal members of the church brought...
According to officials of a Northern mail-order house-which one the inspectors would not say-Bug Tussle had done them out of $6,000 worth of overalls and kitchen stoves. The citizens had done it, they said, simply by giving themselves as references for each other and nobody ever seemed to have paid for what he ordered. One of them even got his cat an A credit rating. The inspectors are afraid they will have to make some more arrests, but they think it fortunate for their case that they will be able to take the erring citizens...
...market, Mr. Loree used some of the cash to buy a clear 10% of New York Central stock. It was easily the largest New York Central holding. Railroad men spoke of the new Leonor Loree. But last week, six years after the purchase. New York Central stock was worth half what he paid for it, and Mr. Loree was weary of the game...