Word: worthing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...That has already been made in many instances in the catalogues where they have been shown, in America and in Europe. The more recent acquisitions have also been published in the Museum's Bulletin and elsewhere by Miss Agnes Mongan, Keeper of Drawings at the Museum. But it is worth noting that proportion has been made among the many masters and schools. And some outline should be given of what awaits a visitor, whether he is a connoisseur who knows the field, or a layman who would go far to see a drawing made by the hand of Raphael...
...Alex Small was among those who saw otherwise, cabled: "Farida wore no veil at all, revealing that she is of the pure Circassian type, more beautiful than has been represented in any of her pictures. Her short, slim, childish figure was clothed in a billowing white satin wedding gown." Worth of Paris charged the Egyptians $3,000 for this dress. Other eyes must have seen her too, for, still breaking tradition, she rode out incognito with Farouk to watch the fireworks...
...Yale University Library a student handed in a call slip for Yale's Gutenberg Bible, worth $120,000, one of seven of its kind extant in the world. The request was refused...
Magazines. The plague of picture magazines did not add a corresponding volume of advertising to the magazine business. But one picture magazine, LIFE, made the most brilliant new showing of the year by selling $7,300,000 worth of space in the first eleven months, crowding into the Big Eight.* The in other leading magazines carried $161,000,000 worth of advertising in 1937, a 15% gain...
...true criteria to be used in judging the value of a sport is the worth of that sport to a student in after college life. On this basis the two American major sports are golf and tennis. With regard to the latter the University has ample facilities, but in the former only the good graces of a neighboring golf course mogul allow any direct Harvard participation...