Word: worthing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...believe that God is ultimately going to save us by numbers. If I am going to face a firing squad, I will die for something that means more to me than life itself. Hence, we must teach our young people rock-bottom dogmas, which are worth more than life itself. And you can make the truths of faith so thrilling, so gripping, that men and women, young and old, will literally listen to you spellbound...
...tails, designed the spectrophotometer which bears his name, adapted coconut shell charcoal for gas masks during the War. President Hutchins told him off to design a survey course in physical science which would attract rather than repel students majoring in other fields. Believing that most survey courses were "not worth the powder to blow them to hell," Dr. Lemon authored a new kind of textbook, From Galileo to Cosmic Rays. Written with insight and humor but with scientific integrity, it was illustrated with sly drawings by Artist Chichi Lasley, one of which showed a student fleeing in horror from...
Granted. To Authoress Margaret Mitchell Marsh; a temporary injunction restraining Showman Billy Rose from participating in the profits of his Casa Mañana Review at the Fort Worth Frontier Centennial, in which he used the name of her novel Gone With The Wind as the name of one of his sketches; in Fort Worth. The injunction does not prevent continuance either of the review or of the sketch...
...letting a runaway bear market develop now than it had to see a bull market get out of hand last spring. At that time the Federal Reserve Board was bearing down on credit. Fortnight ago it started to loosen up, persuading the Treasury to release $300,000,000 worth of "sterilized gold" (TIME, Sept. 20). As a stockmarket hypodermic, the gold news was notably weak, for it reminded Wall Street that almost anything can happen, but it again showed that the Administration not only possesses vast power over U. S. economy but is ready...
Corn. Present estimate for this year's corn crop is 2,549,000,000 bu.-109,000,000 bu. less than estimated a month ago but a billion more than last year. At present prices of 63? a bushel for December corn in Chicago, the crop is worth about $1,606,000,000. Last week, with this huge harvest due to begin pouring on the market about Oct. 1, by a freak of commerce the corn futures market on the Chicago Board of Trade was threatened by the tightest "natural squeeze" or corn shortage in years. This...