Word: scoring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...upon him, Ludwig van Beethoven was presenting his Fidelia. Circumstances could scarcely have been worse. The week before, Napoleon had taken the city with the result that Austria's music patrons had withdrawn to the country. Temperature in the theatre was below freezing. Apathetic music critics found the score abounding in repetitions while the orchestra kept up a perpetual din. After three performances Beethoven's one & only opera was with drawn from the stage, branded a failure...
...more promising start. But after two performances, Beethoven felt that he was being cheated out of his rightful share of the receipts. He complained to the manager who suggested that his earnings might be greater if he would write more for the gallery. At that Beethoven packed up his score, strode hatless from the theatre. The gallery at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House seemed altogether satisfied when Beethoven's Fidelia was given there last week, taken out of storage for the first time in six years because Soprano Kirsten Flagstad was on hand to sing the difficult role...
Unable to penetrate the tight defense of the Saybrook College five, Intramural Champions from Yale, Crimson League-leaders from Adams House fell by the score of 23-19 last night in the annual basketball game...
...case of this kind, the referee, who also scores points, puts his score in as the deciding vote. The total of scoring by points of the two judges and the referee are then added up. For this boxing meet the referee are then added up. For this boxing meet the referee and judges were most carefully selected, and approved by the Harvard Athletic Association. This method of scoring was agreed upon by both judges, the referee and both coaches before the match started. In the case of the bout between Huffman of Yale and Olney of Harvard, the score...
...Score-Harvard 11, Yale...