Word: scoring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Shrewd, even charming and a consummate, instinctive master of humans, the Dictator this week was getting everything set to score a greater triumph at the polls on December 12 than has ever been scored by Hitler or Mussolini-scores of millions more yes-ballots. Trouble was at latest reports that nominating bodies throughout the Soviet Union were all trying to nominate Stalin as their candidate. Some 1,143 new elective offices have been created and means will have to be found to keep the Dictator from being elected to each. Last week "Most Popular Soviet Novelist" Peter Pavlenko sloganed...
...afternoon last week a golden October sun beat down on one of the maddest sport spectacles that Atlanta ever saw. Georgia Tech's football team, which had been unscored on while scoring 119 points in its first three games this season, lined up against Duke University's powerful team. In the first five minutes of the game Duke took the ball in midfield and rolled forward in eleven plays to its first touchdown. That march was a sample of what the final statistics were to show-Duke gained 200 yards by rushing to Georgia Tech...
...minutes after Duke's first demonstration of power, Georgia Tech took the ball on its own 35-yd. line, and in ten plays scored a touchdown. That flight was also a sample of the afternoon's play. It began with a 33-yd. forward pass, followed by a forward from Quarterback Sims to End Jordan who lateraled to Guard Wilcox for a first down on the 18-yd. line. Before the afternoon was out Georgia Tech had completed eleven passes, many of them breath-taking forward-laterals and lateral-forwards, for gains averaging over 15 yards apiece...
...used to the excitement of winning games by one-point margins. Only once before in his 19-year coaching career had that happened to him, on an historic occasion in 1926 when his Alabama team beat the University of Washington in the Rose Bowl by the exact score of last week...
...other House football clash saw a 0-0 tie between the Winthrop and Adams elevens. The closest to a score came in the last minutes of the first half when Winthrop's quarterback, "Little Joe" Hindle intercepted a pass on his own 40 yard line and ran over 25 yards before being forced out of bounds...