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Word: pars (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...While unemployment is higher than during the Korean war, it is on a par with comparable months of 1949 and 1950 and "has shown some tendency to diminish of late...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: New Offensive | 8/23/1954 | See Source »

...Eternal Smile & Other Stories, by Par Lagerkvist. A fine collection of stories and fables from the inventive mind of the Swedish Nobel Prizewinner, ranging from childish charm to ghostlike horror (TIME. June...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: RECENT & READABLE, Aug. 16, 1954 | 8/16/1954 | See Source »

...summer replacement revue (for Arthur Godfrey) that indicates that some of Comedian Skelton's best writers may be on vacation too. While Skelton's characterizations of the tramp, Freddie the Freeloader, and the goon, Clem Kiddlehopper, were pretty much up to par on the first program, some of his straight monologue material was merely second-rate. Skelton's first guest was the sugar-coated Pianist Liberace, who 1) mooned interminably through Debussy's Clair de Lune and grinned ecstatically through a Latin rhythm piece, 2) cavorted with Skelton in a dance number, and 3) played straight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The New Shows | 8/2/1954 | See Source »

...Coffee-rich Guatemala's quetzal is exactly at par with the U.S. dollar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hemisphere: How to Rob a Bank | 7/26/1954 | See Source »

ROYAL DUTCH PETROLEUM will soon be traded again on the New York Stock Exchange. Stock was dropped 18 years ago for failure to comply with SEC regulations. The Big Board's governors authorized Royal Dutch to list 24,327,312 shares, par value 50 guilders (about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, Jul. 19, 1954 | 7/19/1954 | See Source »

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