Word: pars
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...people (TIME. May 27), Western experts have been debating whether or not Red China's boss was trying to assert ideological independence of Moscow. Last week, as Polish Communists began to leak quotations from his pronouncements, it became apparent that Chairman Mao was putting himself on a par not just with Khrushchev but with the prophets of Marxism. "Marx and Engels." Mao had said with bland Oriental condescension, "did not know about these problems . . . Lenin mentioned them but did not enlarge upon them ... As for Stalin, his opinions can be considered only negatively...
...that it will resume interest payments this summer on $56 million in old bonds. Rates will start at 2% and move up gradually to 3% by 1964. A sinking fund will be started to buy up the bonds in the free market or pay them off by lots at par-$1,000 plus $100 settlement on back interest. It was a lean agreement-the leanest yet in the Council's history-but the council told bondholders it was the best they could expect from sorely strained Bolivia...
...handsome blond had finished high up and failed to win. Chances seemed good that he would blow it again. This week in the play-off it was Middlecoff who came apart. He splashed shots all over the course. Remarkably calm in the oppressive heat, Mayer played steady, close-to-par golf. While Middlecoff made Bobby Jones a prophet and lost the National Open championship, Dick Mayer...
...wife's faith in him help Steve to reforge his faith in business and himself. Author Swiggett understands the paternalistic embrace in which the large, modern corporation holds its employees-but he vastly exaggerates it. His notion that the corporation makes or unmakes the man is on a par with all the determinist devil theories of history which hold that every evil of human life flows from the capitalistic "system," or from the machine, or from sunspots...
Today "Madman" Munch is recognized as Scandinavia's most powerful artist, one of the key founders of German expressionism, second in power only to Vincent Van Gogh, and on a par with Toulouse-Lautrec as a graphic artist. His work was first shown on a major scale in the U.S. seven years ago (TIME, May 1, 1950) ; the second major retrospective has already been an outstanding hit at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art and Minneapolis' Institute of Arts, will travel over the coming twelvemonth to Chicago, Cincinnati and San Francisco...