Word: score
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...beer suit was ever more loyal to Old Nassau. Punctually every year Paul van Zeeland sends cards to every instructor under whom he studied. In the autumn of 1934 when Paul van Zeeland and a Yale friend attended an important banking conference, the latter scribbled the just-arrived score of a football game on a card and slipped it to the former-Yale 7; Princeton 0. Back from van Zeeland came the re-joinder-"Belgian Cabinet: Princeton 2; Yale 0." Cabinet Minister of Transport Vicomte Charles de Bus de Warnaffe was once a Princeton graduate student too. Mr. van Zeeland...
Harvard box score...
...Pittsburgh, the Alex Smith Memorial Trophy for lowest qualifying score went to solemn young Byron Nelson of Reading, Pa., whose 139 for 36 holes topped the field by three strokes. . . . Officials of the Professional Golfers Association were pleased when three of the players they had selected for the Ryder Cup team that will play England this month and four others named as eligible for it were in the round of eight. . . . British-born Harry Cooper last year broke the record for the U. S. Open by two strokes, lost the title when Tony Manero broke it by four. Last week...
...Crawford-were purely matters of form. In one, Bromwich managed to get Australia its first set while Budge was beating him 6-2, 6-3, 5-7. 6-1. In the other, Grant amazed even his own admirers by finishing off Crawford 6-0, 6-2, 7-5. Final score...
...doesn't like, such as Norah, Rosamund's older sister: "Sallow and strenuous and masterful, given to sudden splurges of coarse laughter, and concealing beneath her thick white skin surges of strongly scented sex." But wistfulness predominates: "How few books were utterly inevitable, perhaps half a score in the course of a century. This business of living upon books ! There was something indecent and false and futile about it, unless some furious urge in you cried out to be expressed. How many authors were justified by that urge...