Word: score
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dais at Carnegie Hall, Manhattan, last week. Italians, Germans, Americans beat their palms together, cheered. Soon he turned his back on them, raised his baton. He was no longer Toscanini, but Ludwig van Beethoven-the Beethoven of the surging First and the grandiose Ninth Symphonies. He needed no score to make soloists of the thousand musicians of the Philharmonic Orchestra. Beethoven was in his eyes, his fingertips, his baton. . . . The concert ended. There was a mighty ovation. The audience went home with its marrow tingling; critics groped for words. Toscanini, looking tired and coughing, prepared to sail for Milan...
...What is coral? . . . a centaur? . . . a Bunsen burner? . . . the longest bridge in the world?" "How do kangaroos carry their offspring?" "What is a morganatic marriage ? " "Who was the 'Wild Bull of the Pampas'?" Each pair of experimentees answered a separate set of 50 questions. The lowest score, 61%, was made by Dr. John Broadus Watson, on a test which included the question: "Who is the leading authority in the modern school of psychology known as 'Behaviorism'?" Novelist Alice Duer Miller batted out the highest score, 97%. Professor George F. ("Than") Whicher of Amherst and Editor Holland...
...basketball contest with St. George's the Crimson first year quintet was forced to display its best. The game was an up-hill fight from the start and the Crimson chances for victory seemed nil until just before the final whistle, when the score stood...
...track team's victory marked Andover's first defeat on the indoor track since the opening of the Andover cage in 1925. At the same time the score was the closest ever recorded by the Blue in a winter meet...
...remarkably good quintet and has several imposing victories to its credit. Norwich was defeated 42-23 on December 13 and the following week West Point was handed a 28-16 defeat. Other victims are Yale and Columbia. The former going down 27-21, and the latter by the close score...