Word: par
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Spokane last week a gallery of 10,000, the biggest crowd in the history of the Professional Golfers Association watched the biggest P.G.A. upset since Tom Creavy beat Denny Shute in 1931. Through six sub-par days, the favorite, blond, methodical Veteran Byron Nelson, fought his way to the finals. His opponent there was 29-year-old, balding Bob Hamilton of Evansville, Ind., playing his first major championship while awaiting Army induction...
Connie Mack had risen at his usual hour of 8:30, drunk his usual cup of warm water. His appetite was up to par. For breakfast he had oatmeal, toast and coffee; for lunch, chicken creole, apple pie and iced tea; for the anniversary banquet later on he had the works. He had just been with the Athletics to Chicago, and he expected to go on making all trips with his club. He also expected to keep up with the movies and prize fighting. He did not expect to go to bed before...
...once wallstrait oldparr is retaled early in bed and later on life down through all Christian minstrelsy." Old Parr, Campbell and Robinson explain, was the grand old man of Shropshire who finally trembled into his grave at the age of 152 (1483-1635). Parr and wallstrait are puns ("par" and "Wall Street") on the rise & fall of stockmarket values. The immense polysyllable that fol lows the word "fall" is the voice of God's wrath over the fall of man, the crash of Finnegan from the ladder, and the thunder clap that inaugurates a new period of history...
...Friday, Lowell was again shellacked, this time, 17 to 6. This game was featured by Lowell playing the entire game with only eight men, two under par for a softball team. In the other portion of the twin bill, Company E toppled Adams House, 15 to 9. The hapless Gold Coasters have yet to win a game in the competition, having gone down to defeat three times. As it stands now, Lowell and Adams, only civilian Houses still functioning, will fight it out for the honor of ultimate reposal in Chief Dunlap's league wine-collar...
...member country can change the par (gold) value of its currency (to be agreed upon when joining the Fund) by not more than 10% after consulting the Fund; it may change the value of an additional 10% with the consent of the Fund. Thus the possible necessity for devaluation was recognized, but the U.S., as biggest stockholder in the Fund, would have considerable say (amounting practically to a veto) if any other nation wanted to devalue by more than 10%. In return the British would get something : if any nation's currency became scarce, other nations might, with...