Word: scoring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...river, two boys in a boat heroically rescued a score of drowning persons. One of the boys, Rosario Macaluso, 15, plunged into the water, grasped a girl and an old man by the hair, pulled them to safety. Then he towed a woman to shore, and while she screamed hysterically for her baby girl, dived after the drowning child and saved...
...Exeter's baseball team: the annual game against Andover, 3 to 1, largely because of the good pitching of Jack Batten, who helped further with a home-run in the fourth inning; at Exeter, N. H. Fifty-fourth game in the Exeter v. Andover series, it tied the score at 27 victories each...
...chance that he might become head of the Federal prison at nearby Leavenworth ("The Bankers' Institute"). He turned his attention to the ball game in progress between two American Legion teams from Topeka and Leavenworth. Guards and most prisoners were watching the game attentively, for the score was 2 to 2 in the fifth inning. Suddenly Warden Prather felt a wire noose slip around his neck, a pistol barrel jab into his back...
...piece band of his own. Soon he was bettering the other Harlem jazzleaders by writing his own songs-'"Mood Indigo," "Lazy Rhap-sody," "Cotton Club Stomp," "Hot and Bothered." He has made his own arrangements of such straight tunes as "Limehouse Blues," "Three Little Words" and the Blackbirds score of 1928 ("I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby," "I Must Have That Man"), all of them unique for their variety of rhythm and the contrapuntal way in which the brasses play around the reeds...
...Score--Harvard 7, D.M.C. 5. Goals Benson 3, Nicholas 3, Pickering 2, Young 3, Davis 1, Searlett 1. Time--six 7 1-2-minute chukkers. Referee--Richard Small...