Word: par
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Though it admitted a modicum of sense in nasal tickling, U. S. medicine at once uttered a warning. Irritation of the sympathetic system gives some relief in certain nervous disorders. Scientifically it is about on a par with the late Emile Coue's "Every day in every way I'm getting better." Dr. Gillet's master is Dr. Fernando Asuero, Spaniard who has been touring Europe and Latin America with the nose-tickling stunt...
...squarish, medium-sized, is Jewish but looks Teutonic. He is married and lives on Long Island, but keeps his domicile a secret. As a writer Bodenheim is of the same school as unheavenly literary twin Ben Hecht, but nearer the foot of the class. His poetry is on a par with his prose. Other books: Replenishing Jessica, Ninth Avenue, Georgie...
...Haffner; Nelson Robinson, Jr., Professor of Architecture, will be absent from the School during the second half year. His place will be taken by Andre Leconte, architect diplome par le Gouvernement Francais, and winner of the Grand Prix de Rome in 1926. M. Leconte, generally regarded as being one of the foremost European authorities on architecture, was recently asked by the Architectural Record to make detailed scale drawings of the mosaics at Constantinople, which are now on display at Robinson Hall...
...expenditures by the high price of rooms in the Houses for next year. Even the increased cost of maintaining a House as compared with a dormitory does not seem, to the average man, sufficient reason to justify the placing of room prices in the old Freshman dormitories on a par with those in new buildings such as Eliot House. As a technical question, the basis for the increase in room rents is at once more difficult and more cogent than would appear to most students...
...Par for a New York debut is $11,500 (FORTUNE, December...