Word: parred
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Mewar, spent ?250,000 - at a time when a field peasant might hope to earn seven shillings a year - building and embellishing pavilions on the islands of his private lake, be fore he died at the tender age of 18 in 1752. Because miniature painting was the court art par excellence, a distillate of countless man-hours for people with infinite leisure, it provides a spyhole to the detail of this vanished culture...
...although only a small fraction of Stratford's income stems from oil, a blowout in one of its natural gas wells cost the company $6,000,000. The company's stock sells these days at about $7 per share, eight times earnings, which is roughly on a par with companies like Ford and Bethlehem Steel...
...Embree continued his domination of the high jump, winning even though he had a slightly sub-par, 6 ft. 6 in., performance. Jay Hughes took the hammer throw with a toss of nearly 175 feet...
...Harvard, Hanover weather notwithstanding, the big story of tomorrow's race is the injuries of three top Crimson performers. Hurdler Dewey Hickman, sprinter Bailee Reid and 440-specialist Nick Leone are all still sub-par from injuries sustained in the 96-63 rout of Princeton...
Columbia pressed Harvard all the way in the match and with only two Crimson players still out, the score was tied. Then Burke picked up two strokes on his man for the Harvard lead, managing a two under par on the back nine...