Word: score
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...evening was clear and crisp. A Universal Airline's DC-3, carrying a score of Puerto Ricans home from New York for Christmas, was sailing smoothly southward over Maryland at its assigned 2,000 ft. Its blinking white, red & green lights were visible for nearly eight miles. There was nothing ahead...
...fiction with sardonic, sentimental fairy tales like Three Wise Guys, the story of the Nativity retold in Runyon's "historical present," by a modern Grimm who talked out of the corner of his mouth. With Howard Lindsay, he turned out a play, A Slight Case of Murder. A score of his stories (Little Miss Marker, etc.) became movies; a few, like The Big Street (1942) he produced himself. Hearst christened The Brighter Side, the daily column where Runyon's endearing ignoramuses, Joe and Ethel Turp, were born...
...Bear's great passer Sid Luckman, who had not carried the ball all year, decided to run with it. He plunged up the middle, brushed aside two Giants, went 19 yards for the deciding touchdown. A few minutes later, the Bears cinched the championship with a field goal. Score: Bears 24, Giants...
...Freshmen had the score board working like a cash register in the last few minutes of play, pushing the score up from the low seventies through the eighties against some tough opposition defensive play by Dave Fisher, the Middies' top point tallier. The Navy neared physical exhaustion at the end of the contest, as a result of futile tracking of the more practised Yardling hoopsters...
...power-packed Yardling grappling team proved more than a match for the Varsity wrestlers in an informal match in the Wrestling Room yesterday afternoon when they won five out of the eight bouts to beat the first-stringers by the score of 19 to 9. All the bouts were won by decisions except the 121-pound class where Freshman Jim Waddell pinned William Bluemel in the first period with a Princeton bar and the 175-pound class...