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Word: worthing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...authoritative Army and Navy Register reported that in port at Charlotte Amalie, Virgin Islands, after Caribbean maneuvers, sailors of the U. S. fleet bought $3,472.26 worth of native baskets, cocktail napkins, fingertip towels, baby bibs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Private Lives | 3/27/1939 | See Source »

...tilt today will be only a seven inning affair, but most of this year's diamond aspirants will be given a chance to show their worth, because as yet the make-up of the traveling squad for the spring vacation trip is undetermined...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Floyd Stahl Sends Varsity Baseball Team into Action | 3/23/1939 | See Source »

...modern psychology, modern philosophy, and modern literary thought. He does not seek to glorify or debase but merely to explain in terms of modern thought what these "Classics of Christian Devotion" were trying to say. The reader is left to judge for himself whether what was said was worth saying...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON BOOKSHELF | 3/22/1939 | See Source »

...Sing (by Clifford Odets; produced by The Group Theatre). Clifford Odets, four years ago a rank newcomer to Broadway, last week had conferred upon him the theatrical equivalent of the Order of Merit: his first full-length play was enthusiastically revived. For two reasons Awake and Sing was worth reviving: 1) it casts light on what he has written since; 2) it remains his best play...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Revival in Manhattan: Mar. 20, 1939 | 3/20/1939 | See Source »

That was in 1935. Already the public reaction against Lawrence the Hero had begun to set in. Already there were those who said his reputation had been a gigantic puff, that it was not worth the newspapers it had been written on. By last week, however, the world and his wife were willing to admit that Lawrence was what is known as a Great...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: I.E. | 3/20/1939 | See Source »

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