Word: score
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Before the funeral car advanced 200 heralds and standard bearers, caparisoned, magnificent. Squealing and rasping followed an immense native orchestra. Next came, lumbering and lurching, a score of royal elephants bearing jewel-studded howdahs. Shielded by the howdah curtains sat King Monivong and others of the blood royal whose stern stomachs easily withstood the motion. As the procession passed, both French and native troops lined the way, saluted the funeral car, and kept the multitude of mourners back...
Lawrence Gilman (the Tribune): "Despite the unreconciled and heterogeneous qualities of this score, its lack of any prevailing integrity of style, the music has a power and an eloquence-sombre, granitic, yes 'monumental'-that sweep aside one's reservations and make one helpless before its tyrannous and cumulative onslaught...
...University fencers defeated the J. Sanford Saltus Club of New York City, in a closely contested series of matches. Saturday, by a score of 7 to 6. Levis, representing the Saltus Club in both the foils and the epee, lost only one match of five, being defeated only in the epee by D. L. Modell, '30. In the foils, the Saltus Club proved superior, amassing five points to Harvard's four. The University swordsmen reversed the count, taking the epee...
...first of the Freshman interdormitory basketball series McKinlock defeated Gore yesterday afternoon by a 19 to 15 score...
Lowden led the field on some of the early ballots in the Republican convention, but thereafter faded rapidly, as the risks of carrying the onus of the Lowden campaign budget became increasingly self-evident. Beyond reproach on the score of private honor. Lowden saw the nomination lost because the honor of his candidacy was in dispute...