Word: parred
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sure, perfectly rounded game, Sarazen played his first round in the championship on another windless, sunny day. A bunkered drive on the 18th cost him a shot but his score, 70, was four under par and only one above the course record. Next day he came to the 18th with a chance for a 68. He changed clubs for his second shot, pressed, took a five for a 69 His two-round total was a low record and he was three strokes ahead of the field. After shooting another smooth, effortless 70 he said: "Anyhow, that's far better...
...Stockholm went the accountants of Price, Waterhouse & Co. After much investigation they cabled I. T. & T. that Ericsson's cash account had been misrepresented, cheap foreign bonds being carried in the cash account at par value. In Manhattan Ivar Kreuger tried to pass this off. It was a mistake in translation he insisted. Oh yes, the bonds had been placed in lieu of cash but that was just a temporary loan Ericsson Telephone had made to Kreuger & Toll?he would soon put the cash back and take the bonds in return. And did not Sosthenes Behn see that Ivar Kreuger...
Between 1923 and 1931 International Match sold $169,890,000 worth of securities in the U. S. A $15,000,000 debenture issue was retired at over par, so that $154,000,000 was actually invested in the company. Last week the market value of this $154,000,000 was $1,787,000. Practically all of the money received was transferred to Europe and used by Herr Kreuger as he saw fit. Not until last week did Lee, Higginson & Co.'s partners hear that International Match's chief assets are $75,000,000 owed it by little known Continental Investment...
...friend to all the King's horses, all the King's men and even to all the King's airplanes is Lady Houston. Without her sudden, impulsive gift of $485,000 (par) last year the British Air Ministry could not have entered and won the final Schneider Trophy Races (TIME, Sept. 14, 1931, et seq.). Last week Dame ("Fanny") Lucy was at it again. She astounded Chancellor of the Exchequer Arthur Neville Chamberlain by offering a gift of $756,000 "to keep the flag flying and help the Army, Navy and Air Force in their dire need and necessity...
...grip, now used by almost all ping-pong players. Happily watching the matches from a lavish box was George Swinnerton Parker of Boston, decorated by a white goatee and a pique evening waistcoat. He had donated the Parker cup, to be engraved with the name of the champion. Mr. Par ker helped invent ping-pong. His firm, Parker Brothers, controls the U. S. rights to ping-pong and manufactures 640 other indoor games of which Mr. Parker person ally invented more than...