Word: par
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...golf pro at an obscure country club in Hornell, N.Y. Last winter, in his second trek over the Grapefruit Circuit, he won two tournaments: the Bing Crosby Open and the Phoenix Open. Except to his colleagues who toured the southern resorts and to spectators who happened to see his par-busting play, Ed Oliver was just another pro-until he was DISQUALIFIED...
...thousands of common stockholders in sub-par roads, the ICC report was not cheering. Some (MOP, New Haven, North Western) have been wiped out completely. But oldtimers in Wall Street recalled the drastic reorganizations of Santa Fe and Union Pacific in the '90s, their good earnings since...
Because of superior pitching, Yale's nine was a pre-series favorite. Yale's pitching failed after the first game. A below-par Crimson Varsity advantaged from the breaks and its own fight to win the second and third games and captured the series for the second straight year...
...Quezon first bobbed into view in 1909-a small, nervous, sallow man with bushy eyebrows, who had gone to Washington as Resident Commissioner of the newly acquired Philippines. A Spanish-Malay mestizo, born of schoolteaching par ents on the island of Luzon, he had fought in the insurrectionist army against Spain, afterwards against the U. S. invaders. Full of energy, brilliant, brittle, as unpredictable as a hummingbird, he spent seven years reminding the U. S. Government of its promises to set the islands free. When he left Washington he had in his pocket the Jones Act, which did not give...
...belittle Italian soldiering (Aduwa, Caporetto, Guadalajara), Italy has many troops whose valor and ability should not be underrated. As a result of the Spanish War she has thousands of seasoned officers and men. Besides the Piedmontese and Sardinians, her 50,000 Alpini are first-class, easily on a par with their cousins among the French and Bavarian crags. More spotty are the Arditi divisions, supposed to be shock troops picked for bravery from the general run of infantry. Of 1,500,000 soldiers Italy had under arms last week, about 700,000 were believed to be on the "Littorio Line...