Word: par
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Democrat LaGuardia. Able, belligerent little "Butch" LaGuardia, who hooked a fast right to a Detroit heckler's nose this week, stumped mightily for the President: "If Wendell Willkie is a businessman, I am Mercury. . . . [Willkie is] a promoter par excellence, a ballyhoo artist . . . but unreliable and uninformed and with absolutely no business background. . . . While Wendell Willkie was plugging Commonwealth & Southern, President Roosevelt was building the soundest defense for this country...
...month), corporals ($42 to $54), sergeants ($54 to $60).* The raises would be effective only after four months of service. To many prospective volunteers these looked like niggardly bribes. But privates, corporals, sergeants already in the Army welcomed a move to bring their pay nearer par with the long-favored Navy's. And the increases reminded U. S. taxpayers that, after their new Army is recruited, they will have to pony up huge annual sums for military "housekeeping" expenses...
Classes in remedial reading for those freshmen found below par on the recent reading exam will begin soon according to Stanley C. Salmon '36, Secretary of the Bureau of Supervisory Assistance...
Modern teachers believe that dull children are worth cultivating, have shown that with proper encouragement a sub-par child may produce remarkable paintings, sculpture, craftsmanship. They have been less successful in teaching such children to read and write...
...October 5 Amherst comes to Cambridge to raise the curtain on the Crimson season. The Lord Jeffs are rated much weaker than they were a year ago but still qualify as above par opening day opposition...