Word: scoring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Unexpectedly, our train was halted at a small town and surrounded by Russian troops with fixed bayonets. An officer boarded the train and ordered all American bank men to come with him. About a score of us were lined up in "column of twos" and marched into the village between files of soldiers. I must confess to an attack of cold sweat as we marched down the street not knowing our destination but fearing the worst...
...Frank Gray Carroll, 35-year-old hardware merchant of Brecksville, Ohio: the Grand American Handicap, trap-shooting's No. i event, with a score of 100 straight targets from the 19-yd. line; in his first championship tournament, upholding the tradition that an "unknown from nowhere'' usually wins the title, never held twice by the same person; at Vandalia, Ohio. Tied for second place were eleven gunners, who broke 99 out of 100, a score which would have been good enough to win 31 of the previous 37 annual tournaments...
...love sonnets of Astrophel and Stella were addressed to a beautiful, blonde, black-eyed married woman (daughter of the Earl of Essex), contemporaries were satisfied that Sir Philip Sidney's love-making remained a strictly literary affair. The single criticism ever to touch his reputation on that score came from Queen Elizabeth, who, always furious at the slur to her own magnetism whenever her young men married, acted when "my Philip" married as though he had gone the limit in Elizabethan sensuality...
...afternoon of October 31 the powerful Princeton football team came into the Stadium. In its backfield was an all-American running back. He was flanked by other stars, and in front of them loomed a bone-crushing line. And that afternoon Harvard football fortunes turned. The final score was 14-14, but to the delirious Harvard stands, starving for a winning football team, the score...
...tagging along. The flight of a golf ball cannot be followed even in full moonlight so Golfer Stinch comb had to keep his shots straight down the fairway in order to find his ball. He made a birdie and an eagle, lost no balls, finished with a nine-hole score of 35, one under...