Word: score
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Your recent quiz was excellent [TIME, Feb. 27]. My score was 27 wrong out of the 105 questions. I will graduate from high school this June and I would like to know if my score is very good for a high-school TIME reader...
...score on your test, students merit graduation; teachers, promotion...
Steinberg, an expert conductor in his own right, conducts without a score, like Toscanini. Unlike Toscanini, he waggles his head both for cues and for umph. And when pinches come, he winds up like Dizzy Dean and lets them have it. Steinberg's box score: one hit, one error (playing Anton Bruckner's interminable Fourth Symphony...
...poorer showings of the year, the Harvard riflemen lost to the M. I. T. sharpshooters by the score of 1352 to 1286, at the range of the winners...
...that Wagner's original prelude to the third act of Tannhauser, which got only one performance (at the opera's world premiere, 1845), was much longer than the one usually played? Arturo Toscanini, who has a memory like a telephoto camera, could remember having seen some such score. On Tuesday a phone call was put through to the Library of Congress in Washington. Music Librarian Harold Spivacke burrowed all day, late at night emerged in dusty triumph with a lithograph of the score (purchased for the Library by Carl Engel in 1922). On Wednesday photostat copies were hurriedly...