Word: scoring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fast mail trains . . . huge letter bags, bearing hundreds of thousands of orders . . . lightning fast machines opening envelopes with a single scissors' stroke . . . miles of pneumatic tubes carrying orders to a score of departments . . . vast aisles of ready merchandise . . . your order filled . . . checked . . . placed on great moving belts . . . rushed down spiral carriers to shipping rooms . . . for packing, labeling, stamping . . . other great mail bags . . . fast mail trains . . . your order is at your door...
...publicity given trifling episodes such as the one which occurred last week near Avon, N. Y. State police were advised by agents of the Rochester Humane Society that a cockfight would be held in the cellar of the Canawaugus Inn. When they arrived at the Inn, police found a score of cars, their lights extinguished, parked outside. In the cellar a fairsized crowd was huddled around a tanbark pit, where, in the hard brilliance of electric light, two gamecocks were silently and gracefully tearing each other to pieces. Police arrested 23 spectators and one Gus Kauffman, proprietor...
Pardon My English (words & music by Ira & George Gershwin and Herbert Fields, Aarons & Freedley, producers). The impressive line-up of authors responsible for Pardon My English seems largely wasted on a script which falls short of big-time specifications in score, dialog and situation...
...nine full-time staff men who have found that the wisest men in Washington on legislative prospects and administrative policies are lobbyists. They scrupulously canvass the most potent spokesmen on both sides, take time to gauge the political force behind each, check it, make their forecasts. Editor Kiplinger keeps score on right & wrong guesses, computes his staff's average 85% right. Single important piece of legislation so far passed by this Congress was the Philippine independence bill, the Kiplinger prediction to the contrary not- withstanding...
...Score--Varsity 13 1-2, Westwood 1. Goals--Nicholas 8, Davis 3, McGuckin 3, Clark. Time--Six 5-minute chukkers. Referee--John Walsh...