Word: par
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Svelte, 22-year-old Beatrice Barrett, Patty Berg's neighbor in Minneapolis, who set a new record for the Women's National when she posted 74 in the opening-day qualifying round, only two strokes above men's par for the long Wee Burn course...
...payment for Commonwealth & Southern's subsidiary, Tennessee Electric Power Co.-a pretty good price considering that T.E.P. was threatened with slow strangulation by the competition of Government-subsidized Tennessee Valley Authority power. Out of the sale price holders of T.E.P. bonds and preferred stock were paid off at par, about $8,000,000 was left for C. & S., owner of all but a few shares of the common...
...par 3 tee, your club strikes the ball with the force and angle which you intended, hits the green short of the flag and rolls into the cup, it did so in obedience to certain laws of physics which you set into action. Every molecule was doing its duty. This was your motive and intent...
...Par. Today Wendell Willkie is the biggest political figure in U. S. business. Electric power (he calls it "par") is his business, but power in the general sense is a word that recurs often in his philosophy. Free enterprise, free competition and free trade are his tenets for raising the economic standards of society...
...believes that the "magic touch of par" corrupted business in the booming 20s. "Par," he says, "is just as destructive on Pennsylvania Avenue as it was in Wall Street. Par goes to men's heads. When you see the bust of Napoleon on the desk of a businessman, you'd better get out quick and sell him short. The same goes for Government officials...