Word: scoring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Members of the American Society of Newspaper Editors foregathered in Washington last week for their perennial three-day meeting, heard a score of speeches about censorship, pressagentry. their duty in molding public opinion. On the evening of their last day they sat down to dinner with President Hoover, whose remarks, as is customary when a chief executive speaks before the A. S. N. E., were regarded as confidential...
Colgate has played once so far this season, going down to defeat at the hands of New York University, with a score of 7 to 1. In that contest Colgate got six hits. Terry the maroon center fielder, saved his team from a complete shutout by a home run. N. Y. U. got nine hits off Daddona...
...Oxford-Cambridge team outplayed Harvard during the first half, A. S. Rains, Cambridge undergraduate, counting four of the Englishmen's five goals. The Crimson's only score during this period came when T. I. Nido '30, playing at center, broke through the visitors' almost impenetrable defense to score cleanly. The teams were playing a man to man game throughout, and the superior defense of the Oxford-Cambridge team was the deciding fact or of the contest. During the first half, it also showed surer stickhandling than the Crimson...
...second half, the Harvard team was greatly improved, and, aided by substitutions, was able to hold the English team to an even score, each side making four goals. During the whole game, however, the same 12 men play- ed for Oxford-Cambridge. In this half, Harvard succeeded in keeping the ball away from its own end of the field for the greater part of the playing, but was rarely able to reach scoring distance...
...statistician of the Long Island Railroad, Penn-owned commuters' road into New York City, revealed a curious statistic: the Long Island, 404 miles long, last year actually carried more passengers than did its 10,511-mile parent. The score was 118,888,128 for the Long Island to 113,713.797 for the Pennsylvania. The average revenue per passenger on the Long Island, however, was only $.23 as against $1.18 on the Pennsylvania...