Word: pars
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Spanish peseta, still stamped with the portrait of Alfonso XIII, slumped last week to a new low for all time: 11.56 pesetas to the dollar (at par 5.18 pesetas equal...
...international exchange the German mark rose approximately to par* last week for the first time since last May. During the July crisis, when President Hans Luther of the Reichsbank flew like a distracted June bug from Berlin to London to Paris to Basle seeking funds (TIME, July 20), the mark knelt at a low for the year...
Normally a Great Power whose currency is at par and whose exports are equaled by no competitor would be rolling in riches, able to pay her debts twice over. Not so the Fatherland. In Berlin last week stern Chancellor Heinrich ("Iron Cross") Bruning took that famed "initiative" which President Hoover and Premier Laval recently agreed should be taken toward securing a further reduction of what Germany must pay (TIME...
...come and listen in the gallery. I had one warning that he was going to speak. That was when he made his Drought speech [Feb. 2, 1931] and then I didn't go and all my friends were angry with me. . . . "Oh, yes - I made a hole in par once...
...these roots of religion nourishes doubt and suspicion rather than faith and belief. Familiarity with these roots probably accounts for the fact that psychologists as a class are notoriously irreligious. Whereas 37 per cent of the physicists in Who's who are members of religious denominations, only 16 par cent of psychologists listed are members. Also students and the public see these roots and nothing more and think psychology inimical to religion...