Word: score
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From Waterloo to 1914 there were a score of issues over which France and Britain might have fought. They were old enemies and current imperial rivals. Yet they did not fight: the French had little chance against British sea power; the British had little interest in destroying the French check on Austrian and Prussian land power. Britain and France were not "ripe...
Shaggy Henry Wallace registered to vote in stylish Westchester County, N.Y. (he gave his occupation as poultry farmer), but forgot to bring along his high-school diploma, and had to take a literacy test. His score...
Saturday's Stadium acrobatics caught several score Boston and New York sportswriters just far enough off guard to cause a slow of ecstatic, heedless, devil may care stories in yesterday's papers. Alison Danzig of the New York Times typified the trend...
This is not to detract a whit from the coaching or the Crisler system that sprung Crimson runners around end time and time again for long gains; the "Michigan efficiency" is probably the key to the season as a whole. But the key to Saturday's score was more nearly found by Red Smith in his Herald Tribune story...
George Penndorf, playing right wing for the physical education students, tapped in the single score from a mole in front of the Harvard goalmouth. Crimson goalie Whoop Batchelder, who throughout the game made a series of spectacular saves, was blocked out of the scoring play by the scrambling Crimson defenders...