Word: scoring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...others who have helped to gladden the heart of Coach Adam Walsh. The loss of three Varsity tackles of last year as well as both first-string Jayvee tackles left the situation pretty hopeless but the showing of the newcomers relieved the minds of the coaches on this score...
...passes throughout the year that four or five large passenger liners do not arrive in New York from Southampton, Le Havre, Hamburg, Genoa, Buenos Aires, Bremen. Glasgow, Cherbourg, Villefranche, Oslo, Valparaiso, Havana. And hardly a day passes that these ships do not set down on the Manhattan docks a score or more of passengers whose opinions on gold, Hitler, husbands, Russian food, literature, Disarmament, legs, do not make news of a kind. But at no time during the year is such news so plentiful as during the first ten days of September. Then ocean travel to the U. S. reaches...
...competitors. Then he was to plunge into rehearsals for the premiere of The Pirates of Penzance, whose production was impeded at the start by the absentmindedness of pious Arthur Sullivan. In his haste to make a later boat, Composer Sullivan had left behind in his London flat the entire score...
...opportunist" TIME meant that sharp Publisher Schuster is alert to every opportunity to score a publishing coup, did not mean he was lacking in principle. But TIME cannot subscribe to Author Durant's concluding maxim: "Of the living, nothing but what is good...
...week's visit to Manhattan, Sir Henri had calmly announced that railroad electrification was already obsolete, that the Diesel engine was the locomotive of the future. On that score, too, Mr. Sinclair had a ready answer: "What's the difference whether you drink Scotch or bourbon"?a reference to the fact that U. S. railroads already burn some 2,000,000,000 gal. of fuel oil per year...