Word: pros
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...faced iron. But many a player has so continued, waiting for tournament golfers, who had to use the new ball, to give some indication of whether it really took distance off shots, was harder to control. Last week the Professional Golfers Association published a tabulation of what 16 famed pros have done with the larger, lighter ball. The discovery: scores are as low as ever. Whatever distance is lost in the roll or spent in the wind is made up for by the way the new ball sits up to be hit, and by its less deviating roll...
...Some weeks ago you published a letter from my wife, L. Worden Royal, regarding the pros and cons of conservation of bears in Alaska (TIME, July 14). Since then we have received letters and newspaper clippings from all parts of the country regarding that letter...
When the tariff on Cuban sugar was raised this year from 1.76? to 2? per lb., pros and antis agreed on the probable result. Said the pros (mostly U. S. sugar-beet growers): sugar imports will drop, a young U. S. industry will thrive lustily. Said the antis (led by potent Manhattan bankers with investments in Cuba): in competition with duty-free Hawaii, Porto Rico, the Philippines, Virgin Islands, Cuba will be ruined...
...action of the American Unitarian Association in adopting a resolution to promote the birth control movement deserves nothing but commendation. The finger of stigma pointed by modernists at petrified Orthodexy has for once received sufficient proof to the contrary. Any technical discussion of the pros and cons regarding birth control properly belongs to the physician. The qualification to be introduced is only that it should be extended to the general practitioner as well as the highly specialized medicinal student of research...
...first acts as Tsar of the P. G. A. would be to raise the membership fees, so as to get some money in the treasury; to give a $1,000 insurance policy with each membership; to guarantee larger discounts on supplies; to send out "field representatives" to' help pros with their problems...