Word: parred
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...turned in their gold and gold certificates last March. This is the capital levy or contribution which the nonhoarding public will make if the devaluation of the gold content of the dollar goes through as planned, namely on a basis of a discount of one-third from its previous par value...
...been created. There are other methods by which the Associated has blown up its capitalization, causing it to inflate to dangerous dimensions. By a process of issuing bonds at discounts, repurchasing them at premiums, then reselling the same bonds at lower than repurchase price, and finally redeeming them at par, or above, before the date of maturity, the Associated Gas and Electric Company has created enormous liabilities. As a result of such transactions, the funds obtained have been far short of the face value of obligations created...
...more valuable in cases of disciplinary action for their living in the Houses. But in cases of severe disciplinary action a student's tutor, and his House senior tutor and Master are almost always consulted anyway: the resident dean, therefore, shorn of disciplinary power, would be on a par with the resident tutor so far as his relations with House residents. This step would constitute a further decentralization, and would make more healthy contact between University Hall and the undergraduates as they live in the House plan...
...Barrymore, slightly juvenile for his years, is the grand old man Storer, who saves from rapacious peasant "in-law" the land which rightfully belongs to his granddaughter, the last of the Storers, played by an over-tense and under-trained Miriam Hopkins. The photography is above average, script below par. Barrymore same as ever. Good entertainment...
...remaining volumes has already been entrusted to suitably selected scholars In different parts of the world who will now be enabled to complete their task without being troubled by pecuniary anxiety. Under the terms of his will Dr. Loeb has provided a sum of $300,000 (*60,000 at par) to endow an institution to be called the Loeb Classical Library Foundation to carry on the noble work of which he was the originator and most generous patron. The foundation is to be placed under the supervision of three trustees, and when the classical library has been completed the income...