Word: score
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...score of years U. S. equity law has hobbled Labor organization, has hampered its strike activities. Senator Henrik Shipstead of Minnesota offered a bill to revolutionize the use of injunctions. The Senate Judiciary Committee rejected it as unconstitutionally radical. With the aid of Senators Walsh of Montana, Norris of Nebraska and Elaine of Wisconsin, the A. F. of L. last week concocted a substitute bill which, if adopted, would change the whole character of labor troubles, strengthen strikes, compel employers to ground their injunction applications on legal proof instead of fears...
...game was noisily underway when Mr. Eugene G. Morehead, accompanied by Mr. Harold Levy, then but recently come South from Down East, drove up. To a young and enthusiastic looking darky who approached, Mr. Morehead asked for the score...
...Covell and Mrs. Dorothy Shepherd-Barron, runners-up at Wimbledon, continued the visitors' lessons in doubles play for Little Helen's benefit. The latter's partner, Mrs. Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman. 25 times a champion, needed no such instruction, but the final score was 6?2, 6?1 in favor of England...
...tennis for women. As Helen Hotchkiss she first won the U. S. championship in 1909 before Betty Nuthall and Helen Jacobs were born and when Helen Wills was a tot. She kept the title until 1912 and then, though "they never come back," rewon it in 1919. Her score of other national titles were amassed in doubles courts and indoors. She gave the Wightman cup six years ago. The next year her husband, George W. Wightman, an able player himself, was elected President of the U. S. Lawn Tennis Association. Mother of four, brown, firm, skillful...
...long soaking rains could give. Corn tassels burned. Live stock on the ranges drank from dwindling water holes. Truck gardeners saw their vegetables shrivel up and die. In many a city officials worried over the water supply. Forest fires licked menacingly through Minnesota, Wisconsin, Idaho, California. Greatest in a score of years had been the July drought...