Word: scoring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Before many minutes had elapsed Lowell's quarterback Murphy also intercepted a pass and also proceeded to run 30 yards for a score. The point was missed...
...inscription when the composer thought that the ambitious Corsican had presumed too much when he titled himself Napoleon the Emperor. Its "heroic" qualities have survived both in the magnificent music and in the fitting name "Eroica," and the performances under Koussevitzky should more than do justice to the great score...
Senator Barkley bit through a pipestem while waiting for the results of the Senate's poll on a new leader. He slid through, score 38-37. From his eminence as President Roosevelt's "good friend Alben," the new Leader can look back on a career very American: birth in a log cabin, campaigning on a mule for an early prosecuting attorneyship, learning law in a picturesque law office, finally soliciting votes by way of horse and buggy to get to Washington in 1912. There he has remained, leaving the House for the Senate...
Senator Barkley bit through a pipestem while waiting for the results of the Senate's poll on a new leader. He slid through score 38-37. From his eminence as President Roosevelt's "good friend Alben," the new Leader can look back on a career very American: birth in a log cabin, campaigning on a mule for an early prosecuting attorneyship, learning law in a picturesque law office, finally soliciting votes by way of horse and buggy to get to Washington in 1912. There he has remained, leaving the House for the Senate...
...Rhine's great mass of recorded experiments there are long series of trials in which the hits are much higher than chance expectation-seven, eight, even nine hits per 25 tries. According to his mathematics the probability that chance might account for one subject's score alone is one in 100 quintillion, and when all the scores are taken together the figures are so fantastic that chance is ruled out altogether. Dr. Rhine tried out a well-known British "medium,'' found that she scored well but not better than his best subjects, who were ordinary students...