Word: par
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Finance Minister James Lorimer Ilsley announced that Canada had lifted the Canadian dollar to par with the U.S. dollar for the first time in seven years (it has been pegged at 10% less). He also unveiled a well-pondered plan to cushion Canada against U.S. price rises...
...Royce, dressed in a salmon-pink sweater and blowsy grey trousers. As usual, he did not smile, ignored his opponents, spoke only to his plump, wealthy Argentine wife who followed him around as his official marker. He commanded the largest gallery, and treated the crowd to a three-under-par 70. Then he was whisked back to swank Rosack's Marine Hotel for a massage...
...Winds. It looked as if he might. In the second round he pitched dead on the pin with perfect aim, sank 30-ft. putts, took the lead with another sub-par 70. But on the third day the winds came. Cotton had counted on St. Andrews' unpredictable gales to confound the four visiting Americans. But Cotton's own game was confounded too. The winds troubled Sammy Snead, the Virginia hillbilly with a reliable swing and an unreliable temperament; his powerful drives were swooped up by gusts and landed in the rough. When somebody told him the same thing...
...takes two months for an operator to learn to write simple sentences, four months to achieve the machine's top speed-45 words a minute (par for a fast typist in English: 120 words...