Word: worthing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Upon the commotion then descended the iron Brazilian press censorship which is as thoroughgoing as any in the world. European and U. S. correspondents cabled as little as possible to their editors, judiciously deciding that civil commotion would have to become civil war in fact before it would be worth while to risk their skins...
...paintings each weekend for flattered friends. Value of the stolen art, all of it rejected paintings submitted for the annual Academy show, officials placed at no more than $800. But Cassidy's cuts on the "second and third rate works" in the Academy storeroom had reduced their worth by "thousands of dollars...
...Rockefeller-financed amalgam of three old Negro schools (coeducational Atlanta University, Spelman College for women, Morehouse for men), the new University of Atlanta is one of the proudest centres of Negro education in the U.S. With 1,300 students, $2,000,000 worth of sound buildings and a $7,000,000 endowment fund, Atlanta has had everything but a president since pioneering Dr. John Hope died last year. Last week this want was filled by the election of 37-year-old Dean Rufus Early Clement of Louisville's Municipal College for Negroes...
...merit is the speed with which this excuse is forthcoming. The plot of Shall We Dance? is so involved that the picture is almost half over before they dance together. Once it starts, Astaire & Rogers are well up to their par and most cinemaddicts will doubtless consider it well worth waiting...
...freight car thefts in the U. S. and Canada totaled $688,792 in 1936, lowest for any year on record. Biggest losses were in coal and coke, stolen not only by organized gangs but by individuals who needed fuel. Professional train robbers concentrated on tobacco products, jettisoned $125,000 worth during the year. Railroad police kept their record clear on liquor shipments, in which no highjacking cases have been reported since Repeal...