Word: scoring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...himself and his suicidal devotion to the New Deal. Few dreamed, however, how bad that beating would be. Not only did "Jim" Couzens fall badly behind in Michigan as a whole, but even in Detroit, where his friends had predicted a majority for him, he ran a sorry second. Score: Brucker, 315,000; Couzens...
...year, this notion exploded with a dozen loud and startling cracks. The cracks were made by the mallets of four Argentine poloists knocking the ball through the goal posts four times in each of the last three chukkers of a game against the best team in the U. S. Score for Argentina when the game was over was 21-to-9-most one-sided result of a first-class International polo match on U. S. records...
...speedy that poloists have almost discarded the term "ponies." Main reason for Argentina's victory last week was the fact that the Argentine mounts, which are likely to bring record prices after the series, were not only better but more numerous. After the fourth chukker, when the score was tied at 8-all, the U. S. team-Bostwick, Balding. Hitchcock, Whitney-began, as is customary, to use ponies that had already played a chukker. The Argentines-Duggan, Cavanagh, Gazzotti, Andrada-used fresh ones throughout the second half...
...crowd. It had already seen a parachute jumper bashed to death in front of the stands, watched the 34 private planes in the annual Ruth Chatterton air derby buzz in from Cleveland led by San Francisco's rich Sportsman Frank Spreckels, who won by an elaborate score based on flying efficiency, not speed. The cross-country junkets over, the Races settled into the usual four-day shindig of stunting, formation flying "pylon polishing" before the final grand event-the Thompson Trophy Race, No. 1 U. S. closed-course speed test...
Famed is the Half-Way Book in which a bed-ridden Class Secretary, the late Clarence Day, explored with pen & pencil the Class of 1896, two score years after its graduation from Yale. Was College Worth While?, more factual in matter, more aggressive in manner, shatters the sentimental aura that overhangs most U. S. college reunions and classbooks...