Word: par
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...critical score of 85 points was set high, as a temporary par for the demobilization course.*It provides a margin of military safety until, probably within six weeks, the Army can tabulate the Adjusted Service Rating Cards from all the theaters, thus can arrive at a points total which will permit release of 1,300,000 of its able-bodied...
...formed a new company. Warren City Manufacturing Co., capitalized it for $500 ( 5 (500 shares : par value $ 1 ) . Then he bought the assets of Warren City Tank & Boiler with part of a $4,000,000 Reconstruction Finance Corp. loan, 100% guaranteed by the Navy. He put in no money except $50,000 he lent the company...
...Atlanta, Byron Nelson putted with mechanical magic up to 45 feet, chopped 13 strokes off par for a 72-hole total of 263, never drew a deep breath as he won the last (and his fourth straight) tourney of the winter circuit. The victory upped his 1945 earnings to $17,857, gave him an eight-to-six edge in tournaments won over capable but collapsible Sammy Snead...
Costing roughly $400, the pinball machine weighs 125 pounds, has over 700 feet of wire, a transformer, electric relays, motor, and hundreds of light bulbs. Experts, whose pinmanship is par excellence, direct the course of the magnetized marbles with well-calculated nudges, but usually when handled too roughly the machine shortcircuits and clicks on the "tilt" sign...
Robert Tyre ("Bobby") Jones Jr., 43, back with his old law firm since his Army discharge last fall, recalled his grand-slam golfing days by burning up Atlanta's Capital City Country Club course with a five-below-par 65. Urged by fellow Atlantans to enter their $10,000 tournament in April, Bobby said: "I will when I get my game down to the point where the gallery will be safe...