Word: scoring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...national convention of both parties this century. He was elected a limited mem ber of the famed Gridiron Club to serve as stage manager and property man at its dinners. When the Senate is not sitting, he gads about the country publicizing golf tournaments on public links. (His own score: no.) He was one of the first radio enthusiasts in Washington. About his home he grows fine roses...
Spectators in the Yale Bowl last week expected to see Princeton somewhat redeem itself from six defeats in a row. What they saw instead was a ridiculous landslide in which Yale ran up the biggest score in Big Three history, 51 to 14. Yale's small Captain Albie Booth, ill with pleurisy, listened to the game over a radio, wondered later whether, as Coach Stevens was quoted as saying, "Every Yale player felt that he was playing for Albie Booth. . . . 'Another touchdown for Albie' was the word passed along...
...Notre Dame by one point last year, lost to Harvard the same way this year. In the last quarter, Stecker missed another kick for point after touchdown but this one mattered less. He had just run 68 yd. for Army's second touchdown which made the final score 12 to 0. Only once since 1917 has a Notre Dame team lost two games in succession. Bewildered, Notre Dame's Coach Heartley W. ("Hunk") Anderson said: "Last Saturday's game [against Southern California] took too much out of us. We had nothing left for today...
...over some colored water which is supposed to be bourbon and ale. It relates the adventures of a troupe of mummers who barnstorm the U. S. circa 1811. Big scene occurs when they give Romeo and Juliet in Washington, D. C. before President James Madison. Here the reunited lovers score a triumph not repeated by Miss Gulliver Travels...
...commission, which Professor Thomas formerly headed, recommended the retention of a comprehensive examination for college entrance, which it considered far preferable to the restricted type of test, but suggested a candidate's Scholastic Aptitude Test score, his school English record, and his English Examination grades be all taken into account in deciding upon his qualifications in English. In regard to the comprehensive examination, the commission recommended a greater variety in both the form and the content of the examination from year to year, but was strongly opposed to adding any objective tests, except with extreme caution...