Word: scoring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Football League champions. The All-Stars gained 184 yd. to the Lions 128, made 9 first downs to 5. Outplayed throughout most of the game, the Lions, vying for the honor of professional football and their owner, Radioman George A. Richards, rallied heroically in the last quarter, tied the score, 7-10-7. In New York, bookmakers made the All-Star team, about one-third of whom will themselves be playing professional football when the season opens next week, ;t05 favorites for their second game, against the New York Giants...
Despite the fact that at rehearsals Conductor Iturbi had given everyone a clear impression that he did not consider a pianist essential, the swart Spaniard stormed: "Did I not give the librarian the score the day before? Did [it] not say Impressions of Buenos Aires requires a pianist? And then, when I am about to commence, there is no pianist! Without a pianist I do not play!" Iturbi on frankfurters: "Hot dogs! The audience eating hot dogs while we play the second symphony of Jean Sibelius! People scraping their feet on the floor. Like thees : Scrape ! scrape ! Madre de Dios...
Five strokes (letters or spaces) counted as a "word" regardless of the actual words of the text. But a wrong letter, a space in the wrong place, a wrong indention, a wrong punctuation mark, was an error that cost a ten "word" penalty against the total score...
...halfway mark, Typsters Sherry & Kolin glanced at the score board, saw they were falling far behind, got up and quit. For many years international typewriting contests were sponsored by Underwood Typewriter Co. but any manufacturer is glad to furnish a machine to contestants for the good advertising of having a champion use it. For several years Underwoods won. Then came Depression and the contests stopped. Last week's contest was run by International Commercial Schools Contest Association, and the three survivors, tearing the hearts out of their machines, were using Royals...
They were away down the last 15-minute straightaway. The excited crowd could hardly restrain its cheers. Typster Saksvig had fallen back, but between Blackamoor Peters and Italian Tangora, both sweating in rivulets, the score board showed a dead heat. Tangora was a few words ahead but he had more penalties scored against...