Word: pars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ladder. Mrs. Dougherty's analogy, diffuse as it was, indicated how many a farmer explained away the paradox of disliking Government interference while voting for more. From 1920 on, U.S. farmers fought relentlessly for a standard of living on a par with that of city dwellers. The first real attempt to help them on a national scale, the McNary-Haugen bill, got through Congress, but was vetoed by Calvin Coolidge in 1927 and again in 1928. The Agricultural Adjustment Acts of the '303 finally began to raise the farmer's position on the U.S. economic ladder During...
...firm of efficiency experts (680 staffers, $8,000,000 yearly sales), which will efficiently charge it off to promotion and publicity. Onetime Bible Salesman May got into golf because so many of his business prospects were found on tees. His fortunes have not always been up to par: called before the Kefauver Committee three years ago. he refused to say whether he had allowed a crime syndicate to operate slot machines at Tam. But everyone agrees that May stages the liveliest golf shindigs in the business...
...incoming nine, one under par, for a creditable 82. Pleased over her score despite the bad first nine, the Babe said: "Now I'm going to quit worrying and start working.'' Win or lose, the Babe was philosophical about her comeback. "I'm just going to keep walking around the course and see if I can get in shape for the world...
...Pitiless and overwhelming . . ." Yet, as a play, Sheba was not a success. It ran only 90 performances, far below par in a year containing such hit, such hits as The Happy Time, Guys and Dolls, Call Me Madam, The Member of the Wedding and The Cocktail Party. But Shirley's Lola had a haunting effect on playgoers that lasted beyond the fall of the final curtain. Shirley captured every acting award in sight (New York Drama Critics' Circle, Antoinette Perry, Newspaper Guild, Donaldson, Barter). In the movie version of Sheba, she broke all precedents by winning the coveted...
...swinging Lesbia, who smacks 220-yd. drives down the fairways, has been playing golf for six years. This year she has won every tournament she has entered : the Texas Amateur, the Texas Public Links (where she set a course record of 70 and was five under men's par in the 36-hole final), and the Broadmoor tournament at Colorado Springs, fortnight ago. Lesbia, tanned and relaxed, has done all her winning despite a strikingly leisurely approach. "I guess I'm pretty lazy about practice. It's so hot here in the summer." In the cool...