Word: parred
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shillings, 6 pence, at par...
...another losing Congressional fight on his hands. To his defense Secretary of the Treasury Mellon rallied with a ringing public statement in which he harped on "realities." He pointed out that Britain funded her War Debt for about 80% in gold dollars. With sterling at par her debt payment this year would be ?32,800,000 but now it would take ?48,100,000 for her to meet her obligations...
...announcing to Cunard shareholders the cessation of operations on "No. 534," which had already cost a million par pounds, long-jawed Board Chairman Sir Percy Elly Bates said: "To enable the company with financial responsibility to build ships it must at least earn the depreciation on the old ships [fixed by Cunard at ?675,000 a year]. This the company has not been able to do in this year for the first time in many years. The decline in passenger and freight traffic seems to have no limit...
...revival of herbalism, of which the Modern Herbal is expensive evident been due partly to accident, par propaganda. During the War there was insistent demand for pharmaceutical plants. Mrs. Grieve had been growing some in her Buckinghamshire gardens. She enlarged the plots, trained pupils drying of herbs and their preparation market. Mrs. Leyel, who would have studied medicine if her first lesson in dissection had not repelled her, had long experimented with plants for cooking and scent blending. An energetic woman, she has written previous books on the herbal art, founded the Society of Herbalists, established Culpeper House in London...
...George Von Elm before the match was postponed at the 18th. Next day the best Von Elm could do was to hold his own until the 31st, when Cox laid, him a stymie two inches from the cup. Von Elm used his niblick, missed, and Cox's par 5 won the match...