Word: worthing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nearly corresponding to the total of the students' payments. Expenditures in time and money are thus admittedly counterbalanced by tremendous gains, intellectual and human. A wealth of memories crowds all thought of "what might have been" from the minds of pessimists who argue that college is not worth while...
Harvard's President Felton was once superintendent of the Farm and Trades School on Thompson's Island. The revenues from Bumkin Island used to reach the Pockets of the President and Fellows; the annual income cannot have been much for the whole island was worth less than $1500 during its gaudiest epoch...
There would be no cause for such ceremony if Harvard were celebrating a three-hundredth birthday and nothing more. In such a case Billy Rose and his Fort Worth debutantes or Rufus Dawes and his Chicago millions could put on a show to make the American public Harvard-conscious to an undreamed of degree. It would be no less hypocritical to rejoice if this were a university from which all attributes but old age had long since field. Leave that to Heidelberg and Bologna...
...between 10 a. m. and noon the Manila Stock Exchange on the Escolta was crowded with "Escolta miners'5-lawyers, doctors, merchants, newspapermen, government officials, speculating gleefully, many of them starting with no more than 100 pesos ($50) capital. Five Americans and five Spaniards, said to have been worth almost nothing a year ago, were credited with becoming millionaires...
...members, its facilities were swamped. Tickers were ordered from the U. S. so that customers might go to brokers' offices instead of to the exchange to do business. Brokerage became tremendously profitable. Seats on the exchange which sold for $500 when it was organized three years ago were worth $4,000 last December, are now valued around $30,000 each...