Word: scoring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...raging pesthouse, isolated from the world. Gunboats were ordered away, ships were afraid to stop. When the fort physician died Dr. Mudd volunteered his services. Day & night in a hospital where the thermometer stood at 104 he worked heroically among delirious, vomiting patients. Men died by the score and were hastily dumped on nearby Bird Key. "No more respect is shown the dead," wrote Dr. Mudd, "than to the putrid remains of a dead...
...swank Mayfair apartments in the modern taste. In his meteoric career Architect Marshall has designed only four houses. Last week the Royal Warrant Holders' Association commissioned him to do his fifth house as a jubilee present for King George. Reminded that His Majesty is in possession of a score of palaces and castles plus houses galore, the Royal Warrant Holders' somewhat foggy spokesman conjectured that George V will probably give the house, located at Burhill in Surrey, to "some subject who has performed a conspicuous service to the Empire, or to the widow of such a person...
Asked Trotsky: "Did the consul obtain this letter? ... It is precisely on this score that we cannot gather a single word. . . . Is it conceivable that neither the examining magistrate nor the prosecutor became at all interested? . . Was the letter written and transmitted? Was a reply received? To these unavoidable questions we get no answer. The Gay-pay-oo could not permit the prosecutor any indiscretion within that sphere over which it has been compelled to draw a curtain of silence...
...taken in the score half-year. In most cases with the consent of the instructor...
...last chukker rally Captain Tommy Davis '35 slammed in two tallies to bring the Varsity polo team out on the top side of a 11-10 score in the game with Lyle Phillips' White Mountain Polo Ranchers, Saturday night at the Commonwealth Armory, for the Varsity's first win of the indoor season...