Word: scoring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Harvard's score to date stands 1,083 in favor of the New Deal as a whole, with 639 dissenting. These figures fail to agree with the figures obtained by the CRIMSON in 1932 when the College voted overwhelmingly in favor of Hoover for President. At that time students in the University polled a total of 1211 in favor of Hoover while Roosevelt was a poor second with...
...word "snobbery" has an unpleasant ring, and when it is pronounced, hearers want to sneak off and ask themselves if they are guilty. The two score years have passed since '97 was warned to guard a binding force. Those years have seen that and other forces of cohesion broken and the disintegration of Yale classes into small, more or less snobbish groups has resulted. The change has not been entirely within Yale, although the enormous increase in size and the more recent splitting up into colleges have furthered the disintegrating tendency...
...sixth, he holed a 20-ft. putt for a birdie. On the 461-yd. 13th he just missed a putt for a 3. On the 14th, his second shot hit the flag-pin. At the 18th, he had a lead of 12 up and a medal score of 66, which was three strokes less than the course record. On the 23rd, Little had the match and the honor of having won the British Amateur without losing a single hole in the final round-14 up and 13 to play, the most one-sided score on record. Lawson Little learned...
...meter hurdles-gave Stanford the bulk of her points, 35¼, for the title, to Yale's 25½. California's five-man team was third with 20. Two firsts by Bob Kiesel (100-meter and 200-meter sprints), piled up half of California's score. ¶ Only man beside Kiesel to win two firsts was Princeton's famed Bill Bonthron. He won the 1,500-meter run easily, with Penn's Venzke second. In the 800-meter race, he started his sprint late, suddenly found himself blocked by a line of runners across...
...Physicist Arthur Holly Compton. ¶ The life of man upon this earth is 70 years. A child born today may expect to live 60 years instead of the 35 years it could expect in 1833. -In the 21st Century ... we shall see the majority of mankind approximating three score years and ten.-Dr. Morris Fishbein, editor of the American Medical Association Journal. ¶ Facsimile radio, that is, the sending of pictures and printed matter through the air, is looming on the horizon of science. ... I believe the day will come when you will turn on the facsimile receiver when retiring...