Word: pars
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Internal Myxedema. Among the common signs of a thyroid gland functioning under par are: cold, dry, rough and puffy skin; coarse, dry hair which falls out; apathetic emotions; sluggish mind. But those external signs of myxedema (atrophy of the thyroid) may be absent and internal disorders take their place. That possible inversion of symptoms is so little known that Dr. Hans Lisser of San Francisco made a stir by showing that a person's lazy insides may be prodded by thyroid treatment. Dr. Lisser's most remarkable patient suffered from ascites (abdominal dropsy); flaccid heart, intestines and bladder...
Last week citizens of small Cherryfield, Me. & vicinity were being treated to a sight on a par with that of a king rummaging in a slop barrel. Some of last year's drought-starved Western cattle were shipped to Cherryfield. They failed to recuperate, left natives with a large number of ribby carcasses on their hands. Cherryfielders piled the hulks on wagons, carted them to a lonely spot well back from their Black Woods road, dumped them out to rot. Snow soon covered the charnel heap...
...success. The average trust merely invests its funds in a long list of good stocks & bonds that any shrewd investor would buy if he had the money. In Britain, where this type of financial institution is so old that prime trust debentures sell on a par with government securities, the investment trust has more economic justification. There, as underwriters and investors, the big trusts often finance an entire enterprise during the early stages when profits may be biggest but risks are always greatest. Thus speculative British securities tend to become seasoned in the portfolios of trusts, which because of their...
...interfered with U. S. trade, and torpedoes took U. S. lives. The German dilemma was how to make the submarine campaign effective without embroiling the U. S Author Millis does not compare the morality of the blockade with that of the submarine campaign, simply puts their on a warlike par. He notes that "all the lives, both civilian and naval, lost in the whole course of the U-boat war were a: nothing compared with the frightful slaughters of the West Front deadlock which the U-boat sought to circumvent It was humane because it was the one remaining means...
Obligations of the State of Louisiana are selling above par which far from indicates that his alleged "dictatorship" has in anyway impaired the commercial advancement of the state. . . .We didn't know we were entitled to representation in the national government until he was elected to the Senate...