Word: pars
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...double eagle" (i. e., 2 on a par 5 hole) is as rare in golf as a hole-in-one. The chances against Sarazen making such a shot at any time would have been 100,000-to-one. The chances against such a stroke of fortune coming at a crucial moment would be even greater. Sarazen's double eagle came at just such a moment. Before he made it he needed to play the last four holes three strokes under par to tie Craig Wood, who had apparently already won the tournament by posting in the clubhouse a four...
France ranked on a production par with the U. S., both down 33% from 1929. Japan and Britain are far out ahead, Japan surpassing her 1929 production level and Britain nearly up to hers...
PROVENCE-Ford Madox Ford-Lippincott ($3). Rambling observations on troubadours, garlic, bullfighters, courts of love, the British Museum, bouillabaisse, actresses losing their petticoats-by a rambler par excellence...
That policy makes Texas Pacific Land Trust a unique investment among liquidating concerns: certificate holders' proportionate interest in the unsold land increases year after year. Behind each $100 par value of certificates in 1888 were 33 acres of Texas land. Today there are 114 acres behind the same certificates, and the land is much more valuable. Theoretically the time will come when the last solitary certificate holder will own all the land that remains unsold. But one thing will probably prevent that: The trust provides that if 75% of the certificate holders approve, all the property may be liquidated...
Inoffensive Mr. Ruth, cheered up & down Japan by frenzied millions of slant-eyed baseball fans, proved a Peace Envoy par excellence (TIME, Nov. 12). Shocked in Manhattan by the news from Tokyo last week, the Babe said: "I am mighty sorry to hear that anything has happened to Mr. Shoriki and I hope he recovers. He wasn't in the game for money, but because he believed baseball a good thing for Japan. To us he was a fine host, full of energy and hustle...