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Word: par (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...suffer greatly from comparative lack of experience and can scarcely hope for a very imposing string of victories. By the end of the year however. Harvard should have mastered the fundamentals and at the close of its fourth season should have built up a team that is on a par with its rivals...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Ability to Relax, Coordination, and Winning Spark Points of a Great Swimmer", Says Ulen--Inexperience an Obstacle | 11/5/1930 | See Source »

...rattled by competition with the outland contestants. Impulsive Chinese Grace Moy of Brooklyn arrived in her car late one evening and went right out to play. She was up early in the morning to play some more. Her scores were bad. She said: "If I don't break par this round I'll jump in the goldfish pool." She did not break par. She did not jump in the bowl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Wee Golf | 11/3/1930 | See Source »

...smart Jacksonvillains triumphed. After four 18-hole rounds (par, 56) blond J. K. Scott who says he scores from 75 to 80 on real golf courses won the $2.000 first prize for men with 223. Mrs. J. E. Rankin who won the $2,000 for the best lady was from Jacksonville too. Her score was 241. Putter Newton Coggins from Jacksonville and Mrs. R. L. Stone of Chattanooga were runners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Wee Golf | 11/3/1930 | See Source »

...course, extremely childish. Such sophomoric abortions as the invasion of dormitory rooms whose occupants were totally unknown to the neophytes, the moronic use of any device calculated to arouse a maximum of noise, and deliberate annoyance of professors residing in the Yard dormitories are not even on a par with collegiateism, a trait which supposedly has been successfully segregated from the Harvard tradition...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TIME TO RETIRE | 10/29/1930 | See Source »

...extra $10; the next an extra $15. In 1929 they received another extra $15, a 25% stock dividend. And in January, 1930, the stock was split 10-1. The new stock sells on the N. Y. Curb (infrequently) at around $80, represents $12,000 for the original $100 par...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Prosperous Gray | 10/27/1930 | See Source »

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