Word: scoring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Litvinoff was my chief. He was in time past a courageous revolutionary who had Lenin's confidence. He has shown his intelligence on a score of different occasions in world conferences. What tragic fate has overtaken him to see his best collaborators, his closest friends, disappear -to see the whole framework of his service broken and to be obliged now to approve what has been done, even to praising the executioners of his associates...
...Angel and Maria's tailored English costumes, the detail of the sets, the handling of suspense, the clever way in which the telephone is twice used to advance the plot, scraps of dialogue which show, a little satirically perhaps, the social structure of "this Sacred Plot," these and a score of other subtleties prove Mr. Lubitsch master...
...have sufficient cigar stores, everybody in town reads the Denver Post which should score us high for mediocre reading. We have never had a Who's Who candidate, but do have 2,200 "Who Cares" members. Our few Negroes are fine citizens. As for churches, we have Mormon, Episcopal, Baptist, Community, Catholic, and Church of God, but none are too well attended. Our water system is municipally owned and we pay 10? per kilowatt for electricity. The birth rate is too low, there being 3.1 children to a Thermopolis family. We have many professional women but none...
...since he was injured by a batted ball during spring training in Mexico last year. During the last six weeks of the season, when he was afflicted with an old gall bladder ailment, his familiar figure, dressed in street clothes, wearing a pre-War high hard collar, brandishing a score card, was absent from the Athletics' dugout. Last week Connie Mack did not eat or drink at his birthday party. He is on a diet of custards, milk and pudding...
...brief period early last season his revamped Athletics rode along in first place, but the hot pace finally told on his rookies and they finished seventh. But despite his ailments and his 75 years, Connie Mack is not disheartened. "I certainly hope to be back waving a score card next spring," he said. "I am putting myself in condition now for the forthcoming campaign. . . . It's such a little time I've been around. I want to have one more championship...