Word: scoring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...play. He will bet on anything, any time, for any amount from a pack of cigarets up. His favorite gambling companion is his young brother "Mike." and when they play golf there are bets on nearly every stroke. John has a duffer's swing but manages to score about...
...Washington lobby is more numerous or active than that of the American Federation of Labor, with its fine marble headquarters overlooking a tiny public park adorned with a statue of the late great Samuel Gompers. But the records show that the A. F. of L. has a poor score for political trading. During the War Gompers traded the credo of the Socialist-Pacifist Federation for union wages in Government shipyards and munitions plants, a swap which helped demoralize the Federation in the five following peace years, during which its membership was reduced by one-third. Hook-line-&-sinker the Federation...
...Score by innings: Harvard 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 2--4 Yale...
...writer is open to criticism on the score of not delineating sharply his secondary Characters. He uses Tolstoi's method of gradually filling in personality as the plot unravels and the strand of one character's life crosses and re-crosses that of another. In this he is not uniformly successful. But his drawing of Andrew, a complete individual who slowly falls in love with Greta, the wife of the rough, romantic Sandy, and his picture of Sandy himself are full-bodied and living...
Almost seven score and seven years ago the U. S. with patriarchal dignity named its foremost citizens to the Electoral College, allowed them in their wisdom to choose their leading patriot and biggest landowner, General George Washington, as first President of a new and independent nation. Next autumn the U. S. will launch the Philippine Commonwealth as a new and independent nation in its own image. Last week Filipinos got down to the serious business of electing their first President. The affair promised to be no patriarchal rite...