Word: scoring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...recent issue (June 22), you score some obscure current movie, a War picture, because the director featured the wheels of trucks with balloon tires on them-commenting that balloon tires were not in use in 1918. Nevertheless, on the opposite page you give prominent space to a painting, Death of Socrates, in which the painter, David, represents the famous scene against a background of a heavy wall pierced by a round opening. Now I do not believe that arched masonry existed in the Greece of Socrates; that it first appeared in Rome several centuries later...
Quietly jubilant, British editors recalled that Greater New York nose-counters when they last went forth found only 6.930.446 (1,272,372 less than London's score last week...
...Harvard and Yale and on the tanbark of Manhattan armories for the last eleven years. They averaged 30 Ib. lighter, but 15 years younger than the Argentines. . In the first match, with 4,000 excited socialites craning on the sidelines, slim Ebby Gerry flashed through the Argentine defense to score seven goals. One goal he made after the head of his mallet came off, by turning the stick upside down and hitting the ball with the handle-a trick he had seen performed by Tommy Hitchcock ten years ago. His comrades made seven more. Though they rode des perately...
...posted a total of 282. His heavy jowls had a satisfied droop as he waited for Farrell and Alliss, who had started half an hour behind him, to finish. Playing together over the drenched, sodden course, they were respectively three and six strokes behind Hagen's score at the ninth hole. On the tenth, Alliss got a birdie 2, followed by four pars. On the fifteenth he got a birdie 3 and on the sixteenth dropped a 15-ft. putt for another 3. He had a par 4 on the seventeenth. On the eighteenth, he and Farrell both needed...
Borotra unrolled and adjusted his blue beret, quickly got a lead of 3-1 in the first set. Shields pulled even, kept winning his own serve till the score was 6-5 on Borotra's serve. The Frenchman won the advantage point nine times in a row, but could never win the next one against Shields's superb cross-court backhand drives. When it finally became Shields's advantage, it crossed Borotra's mind that he might lose the set on a double-fault...