Word: par
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Anyone at all acquainted with the Hygiene Department's methods of doing, Dr. Bock, said would know immediately that the whole thing was nothing but a form of joke on a par with the hoax last April when 1500 students stormed the New Lecture Hall to hear a "doctor" lecture on birth control. The announcement of this meeting had likewise been sent out on fradulent cards...
Harry's Club and Jim's Club are two new so-called social organizations which have been added to the list of frats open to Freshmen. Founded, or rather "recognized" by a group of club-minded members of the class, they rank on a par in exclusiveness with the Harvard Cooperative Society and Mike's Club, hitherto the only two open to first year...
Rewards to print lovers for a long dawdle through seven of the Museum's big, bright exhibition rooms began with a curiosity: a faded title page to a Suite d'Airs Connus, par Mozart, printed in Offenbach, Germany, in 1799 and decorated with one of the earliest known lithographs. Among great prints and notable prints thereafter encountered...
...violinist who sits near the conductor, acts as his working assistant, is Mischa Mischakoff, onetime concertmaster of the Chicago Symphony, founder of a string quartet which for twelve years bore his name, owner of a $50,000 Stradivarius. The rest of the orchestra is well up to his high par...
...memories take me back to a big basement kitchen in a New Jersey farm house where the preliminaries took place that preceded the next-day's stirrin'. Down in one corner of the orchard was a group of apple trees known as "Yellow-Sweets." These were par-excellent for making sweet-cider and indispensable for making apple butter. The day before, a big load of cull apples went to the cider press and a dozen bags of the finest, to the basement for the grand apple peelin...