Word: scoring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cases in which the Department of Justice has as yet failed to score with the capture of the culprits: Edward G. Bremer, St. Paul banker, snatched last January; June Robles, 6, stolen from her Tucson, Ariz, home last April. Last week Federal sleuths cleared up their 32nd and 33rd cases of extortion and abduction since the Lindbergh Law in record time...
Terror-ridden Cuba found its tiniest terrorist last week when one Rafael Tocoronte, 13, was caught heaving a bomb in midtown Havana. To police he bragged that he had been planting bombs for several years, "to help the cause." He proved it by producing a score of bombs freshly made in his home. The judge of one of the "urgency courts" President Carlos Mendieta has instituted to fight the Terror sentenced Moppet Rafael to six years in the juvenile penitentiary...
...basis of a ''charm test" devised by a professor of hygiene. President Andrew J. May of the White House Photographers Association graded his frequent subject, Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Dall, gave her 97% From a perfect score Photographer May deducted three points: one because he "suspects" the President's daughter uses a bit of rouge; one because she does not always toe straight; one because, at 134 lb., she seems slightly underweight. For the new president and football coach of Notre Dame, the South Bend, Ind. Chamber of Commerce held a testimonial dinner, invited Editor Merle Thorpe...
Adlist that's the way I see it with my infallible vision. It will be a good Contist, but the pupils of esteemed Casey won't Lit-a-man down, so Harvard will win by score...
...harriers of the University of New Hampshire won the seventh annual Harvard open intercollegiate cross country run held over the Charles River course, yesterday afternoon. The New Hampshire runners boat back the sturdy threat of Bowdoin College to capture team honors. The score was New Hampshire 40, Bowdoin 52, Northeastern 66, Maine 93, Rhode Island 114, Springfield 130 and Boston College...