Word: parred
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...under the proposed scheme, and German A, which would be confined to pupils for scientific or cultural reasons interested in beginning the study of Teutonic writings, have almost no stimulus to thought, it is plain that such courses as French 6 and German 2 have cultural advantages on a par with those afforded by the study, for example, of science of philosophy. It is logical, then, to require a year of advanced work in any language as part of the distribution scheme. Once admitted to Harvard, a student would continue with the study of a language presented for entrance...
Anyone who has been to Abyssinia knows that its institutions, including slavery, are on a par with those of 10th Century Europe or worse. The relatives of a slain Abyssinian have the privilege of killing the murderer. Thieves are punished by cutting off a foot while the populace laughs...
...count of 8-to 1. At the same time, three Harvard golfers placed high in the North and South amateur Championship, held at Pinehurst. N. C., Phillips Finlay '31, captain of the Crimson players, being defeated in the second round only by George Voigt, who played every hole in par or better...
...infancy. A swift writer, he compounded the argot of the ball park, the slum and the green room, helped make possible such journalistic enigmas as: "Crusading Tab Bailies Biz Into Rough Joints," "Ruined by Grift, Carnival Goods Men Turn to Bridge Prize Trade," "Wellman No Like, He Walks on Par...
...times the stench of the underworld pervades his scenes, although he achieves not quite such horrid insinuations as those conveyed by the derbied, white-faced gunmen in Ernest Hemingway's short story classic of lunch-counters and racketeering, "The Killers." But Robertson's comedy is far above par; in his own chatter and the comments of a crowd of rubberneckers gathered about the murdered detective, his idiom bears comparison with that of the great Ring W. Lardner. When the play is not vicious, it is continuously funny...