Word: worthing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs: ... I may be able to throw some light on Dr. Frederick A. Cook's efforts to prove that his tour to the North Pole was on the up and up [TIME, March 30]. . . . In 1926 I was a newshawk on the Fort Worth Record-Telegram when Roald Amundsen, ace of the cold weather explorers, came to that city to deliver a lecture. Dr. Cook at that time was awaiting the outcome of a federal penitentiary appeal in the Tarrant County jail in Fort Worth. Amundsen was asked: "Do you believe Dr. Cook reached the North Pole?" The explorer...
...Democracy, elect a Townsend slate of delegates to the Democratic convention with Representative McGroarty as their Presidential favorite (TIME, April 6). Asserting forthwith that Dr. Townsend had deserted his plan to finance $200-per-month pensions by a transactions tax and now proposed to issue billions of dollars worth of tax-exempt bonds, the angry Poet Laureate called on "millions of Townsendites" to repudiate their original leader...
...either as a worth-while preparation for such purposes or for more immediate uses, the Sociology Department is regarded with deep suspicion and jealousy. Its position at Harvard is in the limbo of forgotten, perhaps intentionally forgotten departments, as Psychology and other newly arriving studies once were. Yet without question sociology is a "coming" science not only in its handicapped role here, but also in many of the Embree report's "eleven best" colleges, as enrollment figures on other pages conclusively show...
...Land of Promise" almost deceives one into believing that the World War was worth fighting. It shows the eager and powerful strides of the Jews to renew the contract between Jehovah and the patriarchs: to take advantage of the British mandatory over Palestine and to reassert their nationality geographically as well as spiritually...
...CRIMSON does thousands of dollars worth of business annually. The financial end of the CRIMSON is guided by the Business Manager, and he must necessarily make many decisions, and his position entails much fiscal responsibility...