Word: scoring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...great Dick Durrance sped down the two-and-a-half-mile Mt. Hood downhill course, ''Hara-kiri Hill," in 3:55.3; raced twice around the wicked slalom turns in the Ski Bowl on neighboring Tom, Dick and Harry Mountain in 2:44.6 for the best combined score of all, open or amateur. By far the best of the women in the combined score was graceful, 26-year-old Betty Woolsey of Connecticut, captain of the women's team...
Black-bearded Composer Alan Bush, professor at London's Royal Academy of Music, an industrious writer of acid, modernistic scores, has long believed that the only important function of music is to encourage revolution. In 1929, while staid London music lovers frowned and looked the other way, London's musical leftists, led by Composer Bush, drew throngs to a class-angled production of Handel's venerable sacred oratorio, Belshazzar. Handel's serene 18th-Century score was sung with traditional massiveness by a chorus of 1,800 voices. But it was so staged that the fall...
Before he started rolling for his singles score one of the fellows gave him a rabbit's foot. He hung it fob-like from his watch pocket, remarking: "I'll need two of these." One was enough. In the first frame Bowler McGeorge found the groove with a wide Dutch hook, curving into the 1-3 pocket from the extreme right side of the alley. The pins scattered like cats off an alley fence. Then, ten more times without a miss, Bowler McGeorge's pet two-finger ball socked sweetly into the 1-3. Intent on remembering...
...Score--West Point 14, Harvard 9, Goals--West Point: Christian 3, West 8, Boye 3; Harvard; Forbes 2, G. Dillingham 6, B. F. Dillingham 1. Fouls--West Point; Christian 2, West 3, Boye 1; Harvard: Forbes 1, G. Dillingham 3, B. F. Dillingham 1. Time--Four 7 1/2 minute chukkers. Referee--T. Brady...
...team has been scrimmaging hard the past two days in preparation for the contest. Coach Sargent's malletmen met the Army team early in the season, succumbing by the score of 12 to 9. But since then the team has improved greatly and rates much closer to the 14 goal combination of their opponents than in their previous engagement...