Word: scoring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...toppled over. Folk turned out by the cheering thousands in 164 dust-bitten western towns through which Zephyr flashed. Two thousand five hundred constables, legionaries, volunteer citizens, railway men guarded 1,689 grade crossings. All Burlington traffic was sidetracked, all spring switches spiked down. Breaking railroad records by the score, Zephyr skimmed non-stop over the 401 mi. between Denver and Harvard, Neb. at an average of 79.7 m. p. h., bettering the world mark of London Midland & Scottish Ry.'s Royal Scot (401 mi., London to Glasgow at 56 m. p. h.). At 7:10 p. m. Zephyr...
...Fron- tier Force. When he settled in Harlem in 1929 he was distressed to find that to the U. S. African music meant only Negro jazz. So he set to work on Kykunkor, singing it while a Harlem piano teacher wrote down words and music. No one attempted to score the intricate drum beats. Asadata Dafora taught the players by ear and after a recent performance, the drummers struggled to pass the lesson on to Leopold Stokowski...
Wallowing through a sea of mud, the athletes entered in the I.C.4A. meet in Philadelphia completed the first day of the trials and when evening came the score sheet listed 10 Harvard men among the qualifiers, the largest group to represent any one college...
Andover, the winner last year, leads in the number of entries in the Class A competition with 34 Trackmen signed up for duty. Close on the heels of the Blue comes its age-old rival, Exeter with 31 entries. Andover easily took the meet last year with a total score of 56 1-2 points to Exeter...
...game, and a defeat on its record, while Harvard has lost its only previous game of the season, a match with Army, which the Cadets won 9-7. Yale is the underdog in today's contest because of having been vanquished by the West Pointers by the more decisive score...