Word: scoring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...frail, 51-year-old Chicago poetess named Harriet Monroe persuaded 100 citizens to give $50 annually for a poetry magazine. Before her death last year she had kept Poetry in first place among U. S. poetry magazines for 25 years, exercised a powerful influence in literary movements, launched a score of new writers, written an autobiography scheduled for publication this spring. Last week in Chicago, the Renaissance Society opened an exhibition of the editorial papers she left to the University of Chicago. Largely made up of matters of historical interest-letters and manuscripts of Robert Frost, James Joyce, Willa Gather...
...fought in the Illinois coal fields between John L. Lewis' United Mine Workers and the Progressive Miners of America, a revolting group which has since been welcomed into A. F. of L. The bullets have ceased singing but in the courts the struggle continues. Nearly two score Progressives were convicted in a Federal court in Springfield, Ill. of conspiracy to interfere with the mails and interstate commerce by dynamiting trains (TIME, Dec. 27). Last week another case originating on that dark and bloody ground was decided in East St. Louis, Ill. by Federal District Judge Fred L. Wham...
...recent months French political police have discovered grave armed plots against the State. But the Popular Front Cabinet of Premier Camille Chautemps, supported by a coalition of Communists, Socialists and Radical Socialists, kept the French public in the dark. A score of Rightists, few prominent, were arrested, but their loud demands to be accused of treason and given their day in court were ignored. Fortnight ago, with the evident consent of the General Staff, a general on active duty declared that there was to have been a Communist coup d'etat on November 16, but that word...
...sophomore year, Forward Luisetti scored 32 points in 32 minutes during a Conference championship game. The same year he tallied 24 points in eleven minutes. In two years of varsity play (sophomore and junior) he scored 826 points, breaking the recognized three-year college scoring record of 632 made by Robert Meaney of Lehigh University in 1928-30. This season (his last) he is credited with making an all-time college record of 50 points in one game during the 92-10-27 victory over Duquesne during the Christmas trip. His total score since he started to play at Stanford...
Unlike basketball (see above), ice hockey is one of the lowest-scoring games there is. When the Montreal Maroons beat the Montreal Canadiens last week 11-to-7, hockey experts rustled back through the record books, discovered that the total score of 18 points was the major league's highest. Previous high...