Word: par
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...think, however, that Harvard should be able to make a good showing in the East, and certainly in the Ivy League. But even putting the Crimson back on a par with its hallowed rivals is going to take a lot of doing. And the alumni are the only ones...
With most of the gallery tagging at his heels, he fired a par-smashing 68. That put him three strokes up on Gary Middlecoff, the dentist from Memphis who was U.S. Open champion and Snead's main rival for golfer-of-the-year. In the second round Sam hooked a tee shot into the rough for one bogey, chipped poorly for another, but wound up with a 70. Then Sam finished up in a blaze that left little doubt about who was golf...
...young man named Billy Ross, who also alternated solo dances with Miss St. Denis during the evening. His "numbers," whether entitled "Sailor's Entrance" or "Whither Man?," were not dances at all but rather more party games or charades. Mr. Ross is no dancer, but he is a grimacer par excellence...
Actually, Valpey can tell little about the team's timing during the brief practice scrimmages. He must wait until Saturday afternoon to see how well it comes off under game pressure. Harvard's timing was not up to par against Dartmouth and Valpey has been emphasizing it in practice this week...
...negotiating the Franklin Park jungle, Schoeffler consumed only 22.40 minutes, better than par for the course...