Word: scoring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...agents authorized to carry guns. Soon these same agents, a small, picked, apparently incorruptible band, were making a strong bid for national attention and admiration. Their swift comings & goings all over the country furnished romantic news stories. They showed themselves mightily effective in rounding up kidnappers, pinking public enemies. Score to date: 74 kidnappers convicted, 20-odd gangsters killed...
Australia was "discovered" a score of times before the landing of Captain James Cook in 1770, but the discoverers always sailed quickly away from what they thought to be a barren, blasted land populated by brutes. This autumn Australia has played lavish host to George V's third son, Henry, Duke of Gloucester, who sailed home last week after his most exhausting royal chore since Abyssinia (TIME, Nov. io; 1930). From one end of the Commonwealth to the other, H. R. H. has helped celebrate the 100th anniversary of the day when one Edward Henty landed a stake of cattle...
...game is bagatelle (also known as sans égal, Mississippi, cockamaroo, contact with variations. The player drops a coin in the slot which releases a plunger. With the plunger he drives a ball down crooked alleyways of pins until it scores by dropping into one of many holes in the board. For his total score he receives a certain number of coupons exchangeable for merchandise. The average player, of course, spends much more accumulating sufficient points to win, say, a $25 radio than he would if he went out and bought the instrument for cash. Smart players...
...Score Boston University 39, Harvard 31. Goals--Sternburg 6, Lawry 5, Hendricks 4, Lee 4, Shirk 3, Dampeer 2, Litman 2, Lowman 2, Hoyt, Lowman, McGowan. Fouls--Lawry 2, Litman 2, Dampeer, Hendricks, Lee, Shirk. Referee--Back. TimeKeeper Abel. Time four 10-minute periods...
...back to Cambridge the team dropped in on Dartmouth and collected another victory with the one sided score of 29-0. When they finally returned to Cambridge, an urgent request from the Dean awaited the manager, but due to the victories that had been won, no action was taken...