Word: worthing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...word last week came from youthful President José Antonio de Aguirre y Lecube of the Basque Republic who had fled with his Government. For all he was worth Generalissimo Franco pushed on to Santander knowing that every day's delay would help Santander rally its defenses. Cracked soon it had to be if Spain is to be conquered and Madrid captured this summer. Leftist Madrid has talked of taking a general offensive ever since the Negrin Government came into power in Valencia. Lack of material and properly trained men has always been the Leftists' greatest handicap...
...clothesline strung up in his Little Rock front yard. Anxious to spur his son's aerial career, Father Meadows, a cloth manufacturer, offered him a nickel for every inch above 5 ft. that he could make. In 1932 when he was a high-school senior at Fort Worth, Earle cleared 13 ft. to establish a Texas scholastic record, 6½ in. less than the national interscholastic record Bill Sefton, son of a California oilman, chalked up while at Los Angeles Polytechnic High School the same year...
...this mixture of warmth and efficiency the company, started as a grain business on $100 of borrowed money, has prospered so greatly that the Coryell family, its sole owners, are now worth well over $1,000,000. In their business dealings the Coryells are shrewd, firm and virtually indistinguishable, father from son. Toward their employes they show a rather juicy paternalism. Six years ago Father Coryell instituted Monday morning chapel service for office workers whom he suspected of not going to Church on Sunday. A rumor denied by the Coryells is that there were penalties for nonattendance. Another exaggeration...
Professor Charles T. Copeland delivers lecture in Union "Studies vs Interests and Activities"--Says studies worth more than other activities, but both may be combined...
...Will you still turn for nourishment to the great art and literature which was never so freely accessible as to the seekers of today? You have at least some understanding of the distinction between a disciplined and an undisciplined insight. Is it your opinion that the former is worth the toil and labor it involves? Has your ambition been aroused to sharpen daily your own intellectual weapons? In short, are you going to continue your education or will you soon throw it overboard and with it your independence as a modern...