Word: par
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...members would agree on the par (gold) value of one another's currency at the time they enter the Fund, and none could devalue its currency more than 10% from this original figure-and then only with the consent of the Fund Committee...
...good thing when they teamed up Humphrey Bogart, Claude Rains, Peter Lorre, and Sydney Greenstreet in the "Maltese Falcon," and they've used the squad in varying combinations ever since, most recently in "Passage to Marseille." The latest vehicle ranks somewhere below the "Maltese Falcon," and on a par with "Across the Pacific...
...that time, selling real estate was on a social par with selling patent medicine. Suckers were" lured with door prizes of "imported" china and junk jewelry, free lunches and a circus barker's side show. Joe Day revolutionized the business by 1) investigating and advertising his properties in advance; 2) discovering that a one-man side show by a man who knew his business sold more lots than all the free china he could stack...
...watched the Tournament of Roses Parade in Pasadena a few New Years' ago, you probably saw the Eberles, drum majors par excellence, strutting in front of the Stanford band...
...Demagogue" John Rankin did more than hit a "new low" [TIME, Feb. 14] in his attack on the soldiers' vote bill. His sneak attack upon democracy and racial minorities is on a par with the Japanese attack upon Pearl Harbor and the Nazi invasion of Czechoslovakia. ... A lot of good American boys, according to Rankin, have died in vain...