Word: pars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...signed. However, repayments are being made on schedule, and defaults on VA loans have dropped to 1.1% in January 1955 v. 1.7% three years ago. Bankers who felt that the loans were increasing too fast think that this type of credit is already tightening. VA loans are dropping below par value, thereby boosting interest rates, since banks and other holders can get rid of them only at a discount...
...bulls of the Sumerians, one on the right hand- and the other on the left of the gate of the temple, of Alpha and Omega, the Beginning and the End ... in the book of Revelation. " Only Survivor. The astrological trail, says Moran, leads to Chaldea, "the home of astrology par excellence." But at that point, the scholar runs into trouble: much of the evidence there might have been of the astrological origin of the alphabet has long since perished. Where to turn next? "Chinese culture alone . . . has survived with an unbroken history down to our own times and has come...
...magic number for attaining physical fitness. Actually, for the man with a job, the excretes may be more harmful than beneficial if it requires him to make up time lost in afternoon exercise by sleeping less at night. If University officials are concerned about the physical condition of under-par freshmen, they should still assign the 300 students who annually fail the step-test to a special course, and give more emphasis to the intra-mural program for the rest. The time problem has occasionally been recognized elsewhere. Team managers, who rarely do much exercising, are excused from physical training...
String of Birdies. On the flat, sunbaked fairways of the Southwest, Big Mike was belting out astonishing scores. In the Texas Open, on San Antonio's municipal Brackenridge Park course, he shot two par holes, six birdies and an eagle for a record-breaking 27 on the back nine and turned in a total of 257 for 72 holes-27 under par and more than enough to win the tournament. The next week in the Houston Open, he won again with a 15-under-par...
...successful. For example, the 118-mile New Jersey Turnpike, opened in 1951, took in $20,756,344 last year, more than double the engineers' estimate of $9,500,000. On the other hand. West Virginia's turnpike traffic is running below estimates, and its bonds are below par. Actually, the toll road is only suitable through a densely populated area, is not a cure-all to the nationwide need for better roads. Traffic engineers estimated that no more than 9,000 miles of U.S. highway (of a total 3,348,000 miles) carry enough traffic...