Word: par
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...troupe of female golfers since the original appearance of "Glenna" herself. Last week, like most of her colleagues, Patty was in Ormond Beach, Fla., for the Women's South Atlantic Championship. She took the qualifying medal with a 73, four strokes under women's par. She won her first three matches, in each of which her gallery was by far the biggest on the course. She lost, in the final, to Lucille Robinson of Des Moines only when Miss Robinson sank a 6-ft. putt on the third extra hole. It was Patty's fourth major tournament...
Last week New York Edison was able to market at par a $55,000,000 bond issue with a 3¼% coupon-an all-time record for long-term utility financing. More remarkable, Loew's Inc., financially strongest of U. S. cinema companies, but a cinema company after all, sold a $15,000,000 debenture issue maturing in ten years with a 3½% coupon. Part of the proceeds will be used to retire 6% debentures...
...Stock Exchange at $221 a share. On Feb. 26 it closed at $248.50 and on Feb. 27 at $288, making a gain of $67 in two days' trading. The outburst was caused by a 10-to-1 stock split, National Lead offering ten shares of a new $10 par common for each share of the $100 common now held. From an arithmetical standpoint, a stock split 10-for-1 should emerge with the new shares selling at one-tenth the price of the old. The market, however, reacted enthusiastically to a split-up which reminded traders...
...descend on their receptive brows not like a hail of sleet but a gentle dew. Far & away Author Bowen's best book, it is certainly one of the few Grade-A novels that will be published in 1936. Though critics have never yet put Elizabeth Bowen on a par with Virginia Woolf, they may yet rank her ahead...
...plan has been the fear that one or two of the Houses will play the role of step-sisters and collect only cast-offs from other Houses. To a degree this may well work out, but it is a greatly exaggerated idea. When mechanical facilities are much on a par as they are at Harvard, new college generations will constantly change the comparative status and general character of the Houses, as experiences at Cambridge, England and at other colleges have shown. The other chief support of the cross-section plan has been another fear--that Houses will become absolutely specialized...