Word: score
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...addition to non-utilitarian gates and plaques, Alumni have been known to make other little donations to the University-libraries, scholarships, and dollars in the amount of several score millions. Without the contributions of Alumni to the University coffers, Harvard could hardly have reached its present status, and were the golden flow suddenly quenched, the University would find it necessary to curtail many of its most valuable activities...
...music composed and conducted by William Walton, Philharmonia Orchestra of London and Chorus; Victor, 8 sides). Walton's music was superbly tailored to its job: that of complementing Henry V's sights, speeches and sound. Put on its own (as in the battle music), Walton's score is disappointing. It serves best as an accompaniment to Olivier's spine-tingling recital of "Now entertain conjecture of a time" and the St. Crispin's Day speech. Performance: excellent...
Lipton pointed out that the PBH blood center was not operating this term because of the small size of the student body, "although several score donated their blood last term...
...White feels he has probed to the heart of the matter by interviewing a score or so of "typical" Germans. Few people in the Third Reich, it seems, were aware of Nazi atrocities. Those who were aware or who were active in perpetrating them, were under the influence of "hysterical mysticism," and now want only to forget the things they did or knew. A very large percentage of the Germans, perhaps even a majority "never did like the son of a bitch, and always said he'd get us into a war," and real Nazis were so scarce that...
Last week, with $11,000 to show for two months' work, the two leading ladies of tennis ended their first U.S. tour at Dayton. The score in matches: Betz 16, Cooke 12 (six were called because of darkness). Next stop: England, where they are guaranteed $2,000 a week apiece...