Word: scoring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While planes and dogsleds took the saved 102 on the next lap to Providence Bay, a storm of joy and admiration swept all Russia. To the score of rescue pilots and their mechanics Stalin wired: "We are proud of your victory over Nature." He awarded them Soviet Russia's top decoration, the Order of Lenin, gave them a year's pay. Feeling that this was still inadequate he created a new title, "Hero of the Soviet Union," and made them all Heroes. To the 102 who had been rescued he awarded the Order of the Red Star...
...hockey, a good defense man sometimes trips an opponent intentionally, on the theory that the two-minute penalty for tripping is less disadvantageous to his team than a goal scored against it. Last week the Chicago Black Hawks were leading the Detroit Red Wings two games to one in the final series for the world's championship Stanley Cup (TIME, April 16). In the fourth game, at Chicago, the score was still tied 0-to-0 after 30 minutes of overtime play when Cook, Chicago forward, got the puck in front of the Detroit goal. Ebbie Goodfellow, Detroit defense...
...almost ridiculous ease. The two women stepped onto the black strip of linoleum, laid across the centre of the square, silver-walled room in a sudden, tense silence. Miss Mayer wore her usual fencing costume, a short white dress. Miss Lloyd, in a white jacket and black velyet trousers, scored a touch on a stop-thrust, then another, on a direct attack. Miss Mayer evened the score with a remise and a stop-thrust. The score was tied again at three-all, then at four-all before the spectators, remembering that Miss Lloyd (U. S. champion...
...musical score written on the spur of the moment by Virgil Thomson, is ready now and will be played during the play by undergraduates in the Music Department...
Dunster trailed Kirkland in the other game in the inter-House baseball schedule held Wednesday by a score of 23-9. The winners jumped away to a rapid start, and kept piling up their score through the final inning. League Standings P W L Adams 1 1 0 Eliot 1 1 0 Kirkland 1 1 0 Phillips Brooks 1 1 0 Dunster 1 0 1 Leverett 1 0 1 Lowell 1 0 1 Winthrop...