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Word: pars (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Perhaps it's just as well that the plot is practically non-existent until near the end of the second act. For its first three-fourths, the play is simply a below-par musical revue, a series of mediocre songs and dances unhampered by any connecting thread. Indeed, Jo Mielziner's one set does remind you that this is all taking place on a rather battered Showboat, but there is no other perceptible connection with...

Author: By Joseph P. Lorenz, | Title: The Playgoer | 1/10/1952 | See Source »

Barabbas, by Par Lagerkvist. The story of a reprieved cutthroat who was haunted to the end by the memory of Golgotha ; a fine novel by the 1951 Nobel Prizewinner (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: RECENT & READABLE, Jan. 7, 1952 | 1/7/1952 | See Source »

...admit that he was pleased. In both size (3,810 students) and stature, the university still ranks far below such Southern campuses as Virginia and Chapel Hill. Both able and powerfully connected, Donald Russell might prove to be just the man to bring it up to par...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Appointment in Carolina | 1/7/1952 | See Source »

...utility stocks. Under it-subject to approval by Superpower's stockholders and the SEC-Zeckendorf will swap all his Webb & Knapp stock for 60% voting control in Superpower. He will get nearly 12,000,000 shares of common (some of it still to be issued) with a par value of 10?, plus a million shares of new junior preferred with a par value of $25-all of which he figures to be worth about $37 million. Webb & Knapp will either merge with Superpower or remain as a subsidiary-and Bill Zeckendorf will run the new company...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REAL ESTATE: A Bid for Superpower | 1/7/1952 | See Source »

...thinks he can make it in par...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: End of a New Yorker | 12/17/1951 | See Source »

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