Word: scoring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rest of the students). The Wall Game is played with a football the size of a grapefruit against a long wall. Object is to dribble the ball down the wall and send it through a goal. This is almost impossible under the complicated rules; only three goals have been scored in the last century. The game lasts an hour, and since it is unlikely that any score will be made, the winner is decided according to the number of "shies" (throws) made at the goal. As a spectacle, the Wall Game offers little but the sight of numerous brawny youths...
...score of years ago religious people turned to their church weeklies for interpretation of current news, for leadership in opinion. Church weeklies are still abundant; their aggregate circulation great. But their influence is gone; a fact of which the Evangelical Churches have become acutely aware in their fight against liquor. As far back as 1928 the Methodist Episcopal General Conference of Kansas City recognized by official resolution the need for a national newspaper of church goers. Again, three months ago, youthful Stanley Hoflund High, Methodist editor of the nondenominational Christian Herald, was quoted : "The time is overripe for the establishment...
...sloping forehead and weak chin, partly from the way his eyelid droops over his blind left eye. Out on the course, the man who seemed likely to beat him-Jose Jurado, a slight wiry professional from the Argentine-was playing his last round. Armour had finished with a score of 296, four strokes less than critics had estimated would be necessary to win the tournament. Jurado had started his last round with 36 for the first nine and needed only to play the last nine holes in 39 (three over par) to beat Armour by a stroke...
Variety itself claimed to have beaten them all by a score...
...October. Miss Keen has a Ph.D. from Columbia, never saw more than three films a year before she got her job. Best record among her 16 Manhattan and Chicago colleagues, only five of whom are men, was made by William Boehnel of the New York World-Telegram with a score of 68.9%. Variety estimated that of the year's 306 pictures, 58 were hits, 137 were moderate successes, 111 were failures...