Word: par
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chief reason why he created the new office of Minister of State and filled it with small-bodied, huge-headed, 61-year-old Lord Beaverbrook. It is the dynamic, Canadian-born Beaver who as Minister for Aircraft Production has whipped & spurred, rammed & jammed British airplane building up to par and beyond (TiME, March 31). His rampaging, red-tape-slashing, to-hell-with-gentlemanliness methods are probably as great a threat as Britain has to offer to bottlenecks in military production, transport and Blitz repair. Millions of Britons also hope that the Beaver, publisher of London's great Daily Express...
Young Bobby promptly fulfilled his dad's prophecy-and then some. For the first two rounds he posted 193 (95-98), 53 shots over par. "I got every penalty on the whole course," explained the Emperor's son. "I went out of bounds, I hit opponents' balls and did everything else...
...Master can still burn up the fairways for one round or so. Last month, playing a friendly foursome at Atlanta's East Lake Country Club (a par 70 layout), he tied the course record with a score...
...last decade, many a parent with reduced income has asked a school to reduce its published rates. So keen is the competition among schools for students, to keep enrollments up to par, that many headmasters oblige-sometimes by granting "scholarships" which are actually no more than cut-rate prices. Rudolf Neuberger's system makes it possible for headmasters to offer an easy-payment plan without cutting tuition fees...
...blunder in British strategy: denuding Libya to undertake a hopeless campaign in Greece. The apparent threat to the Suez Canal had them scared. "This is no diversion," said the London Evening News. "Glossing it over with vague, official words of comfort-words which long since have lost all their par value on the public market-is mere futility. The blunt truth is that while we were sitting back easily congratulating ourselves on our triumphs over the Italians, the Germans got to work...