Word: scoring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...made a run of four that included a billiard in which his cue ball touched not the minimum of three cushions before striking the object ball, but five. Then he added five more points. But when he missed for ten innings in a row, Cochran tied the score. It was tied again at 48, at 49. De Oro finally clicked off the winning point. Cochran chuckled, blamed his defeat on bad luck...
Cochran lit one cigaret after another while Layton, handling his cue with annoying deliberation, wiggling his pale eye brows with conscious archness, worked his score up to 7 before Cochran had made his first billiard. Twenty innings passed before Cochran could make two points in a row. Then he got a run of four but Layton was ahead, 29-to-9. When the crowd grew noisy, dawdling, red-faced Layton walked to his chair and waited for silence. When Cochran demanded new balls, Layton insisted on the old ones, compromised by keeping his cueball, letting the other two be replaced...
...first week of airmail carrying came to an end the Army totaled up its score. Five pilots were dead, three of them killed fortnight ago before the Army officially took over. Six pilots were more or less seriously injured. Eight planes were wreckage. Aside from lost man power and morale, the Army Air Corps, according to conservative estimates, was out $300,000-$25,000 for each of the lost planes, $20,000 in insurance and training costs for each dead pilot...
...Odium mailed to 46,000 stockholders a report revealing that their company, now simply Atlas Corp., was the largest investment trust in the U. S. with $121,000,000 in assets. Dearer to the hearts of the stockholders was the fact that in the process of gobbling up a score of other trusts during the past four years, President Odium had more than doubled the asset value of their shares. At the turn of the year Atlas stock had a net asset value of $11.02 a share, compared with...
Outplaying a previously undefeated Dartmouth Freshman basketball team, the Harvard 1937 five ran up a big second half score to win 35 to 29 in the preliminary to the Varsity game on Saturday night. The game was close and rough in the first two periods, with Harvard playing sloppy and careless ball, but in the second half the Crimson machine began to click...