Word: worthing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...think I am able to furnish you with an explanation for the statement in TIME, Sept. 6- wherein you erroneously published the recognition of the Franco regime by the Swiss Government. It is quite a story by itself and I think worth while publishing...
Police first interested themselves in Mrs. Hahn one hot day last August. The proprietor of a Colorado Springs hotel, which she had just visited in the company of an aging but adventurous cobbler named George Obendoerfer, notified them of the loss of $305 worth of diamond rings. After tracing the theft to Mrs. Hahn, police found that Cobbler Obendoerfer had died the day after his escapade, poisoned by arsenic and croton oil. Further researches into Mrs. Hahn's career, which promptly took the form of exhuming corpses, suggested a curiously Teutonic fixity of purpose. Each corpse was that...
...much work as a stiff course with examinations. No outside source can help the student; he must produce his work by himself and by his own investigation. He may even have to resort to using a stack privilege in Widener to get his facts. But this task is worth the effort, since a thesis written is a thesis learned, while a course taken is not always a course learned...
...which seemed to have been whipped together on a rainy Sunday afternoon, Rita Haywood, a little girl with a Simone Simon complex, saves a professional hockey team from the clutches of a gambling concern. After watching the team play for about an hour, we wondered if it was really worth her while...
...Being worth $700,000 and better known to the ends of the earth than any initialed railroad, broadcasting station or New Deal agency, the Dionne Quintuplets last week assumed Y-A-C-E-M as their code name. Psychology Professor William Emet Blatz of the University of Toronto tagged them thus, cryptically indicating that intellectually Yvonne is superior to all her sisters, Marie inferior, with Annette, Cecile and Emilie ranging between...