Word: scoring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year ago Hugh S. Johnson went to Washington to spend a few weeks putting U. S. Industries under NRA codes. Weeks dragged into months, months into a year. Last week when it came time for the general to take a vacation his score stood: 476 codes made, 262 to go. But the hard-talking NRAdministrator would not go vacationing with his job left in that unsettled state. He delivered an edict: All code-making must be wound up before he gets back to his desk. Then, his conscience content, he hopped an Army airplane with Secretary Frances ("Robbie") Robinson...
...slopes around dilapidated shanties the police fought their way. Amid much cursing, cuffing and clubbing the strikers were finally dislodged from the summit, sent sprawling down Rincon Hill. At 5 p. m. 1,700 guardsmen marched in, took possession of the piers, set up machine-guns on their roofs. Score for the day: 2 dead, 85 hospitalized...
...week series of two-a-day free concerts on a shell built over the Lagoon. Also playing at the Fair is the Detroit Symphony, since mid-June an "exhibit" of Henry Ford. Another Ford musical exhibit was a 22-minute cinema for which a symphony orchestra played a special score composed by Edwin E. Ludig, musical director of Audio Productions, Inc., licensee of Electrical Research Products...
...Hepburn and even rock-ribbed "Tory Toronto" split to make his Liberal victory complete. Conservatives in the Ontario Legislature dropped from 84 seats to 17 while Liberals who had had 15 seats were romping home with 65. Rejoicing at the failure of any third party to make an effective score, Quebec's sly old French-Canadian boss, grey-whiskered Liberal Premier Taschereau exclaimed: "In two provinces separated by vast space . . . results showed that new or third parties have no appeal. . . . My hearty congratulations to Messrs. Hepburn and Gardiner...
...when it interferes with the well-being of their fellow-citizens. Nevertheless; even in this field as well as one's own personal life, judgment plays a vital function. A Harvard graduating class is in a more favorable position than many other young men in the country today to score heavily. Certainly there are more chances today to direct one's self into constructive channels, but keeping off the mudbanks on either side requires a code of one's own, which can be acquired only through severe testing. So the members of the Class of 1934 should keep their eyes...