Word: parred
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...people who write this material are, in spite of a continual campaign to get in new blood, a fairly constant band of professional "slick paper" magazine writers who make from $5,000 to $250,000 a year at their trade. Incorrigible highbrows criticize the Post's taboos (par for middle-class conception of decency anywhere), complain that in its non-fiction no intellectual rivers are ever set afire, in its fiction no Buddenbrooks appear among the Clarence Buddington Kellands. This is old stuff to Editor Stout's staff. Nowadays they respond simply by handing out a reprint...
...asylum, some 30 have committed suicide. With the help of Depression, Guaranty's original assets of $20,000,000 had shrunk to $5,000,000 (mostly in land) by 1932, enabling the liquidating company to buy off some creditors for 5.9? on the dollar, issue stock with a par value of 25? on the dollar to others...
...first time since the 'trouble' started on Aug. 13 Ed Easley and I played golf. Place: Inside race course in heart of Shanghai. Time: Sunday, Sept. 26, 9.00 a.m. Par 35, 9 holes. Unusual hazards. Eight bombers over Pootung-bombs dropping-anti-aircraft gun fire, machine gun fire, screeching sirens of ambulances on Bubbling Well Road. Scores: Rotten...
Asked about Freshmen prospects, Pete Petersen replied, "present indications are that breast stroke and back stroke look better than last year at this time. but our freestyle and diving are below par...
...reading habits, 2) how they may be corrected. Dr. Center, 60, who is co-chairman of the English department in New York City's Theodore Roosevelt High School, started three years ago to cure bad habits of the 60% of students who came to the school below par in reading. So successful were these remedial classes that they were extended to other high schools and last year the N. Y. U. clinic was opened for handicapped adults as well as youngsters...