Word: scoring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...meet limited to foils the Harvard Freshman fencing team defeated the Andover swordsmen at Hemenway Gymnasium yesterday afternoon, 7 to 2. Both of Andover's points were made by Allis, who won two bouts before being stopped by Louis Regenstein '33 by the score...
...braces of the National or any other bird dog trials usually race together across open country, heading into the wind toward a likely clump of bushes. At the first scent of game, one or the other of the pair makes his point and if birds are flushed, the judges score a point for him. The dog's opponent comes to an "honor point" and the competition goes on, both dogs striving for the whiff of quail, until the judges are satisfied which of the two is the better worker...
...paid a bounty for Yankee prisoners, Yankee scalps, brought to Detroit. Once Diony and her mother-in-law wandered too far from the fort: Shawnees killed Elvira, left Diony for dead. She recovered, but Berk vowed vengeance, went off with three companions to hunt the Shawnees, even up his score. Only one came back. Two years later Diony married the survivor, thinking at last Berk must be dead. But Berk had been captured, not killed; taken to Detroit, he escaped, found friendly Indians, eventually came home. Then Diony had to choose which husband she wanted...
...score of the average citizen is, of course, zero. As if any confirmation of the dismal aesthetic condition of Boston were necessary, after Chicago's opera company came and conquered when Boston had earlier thoroughly snubbed two trembling representatives of its own in that field, Chicago intends to ship east another carload of mid-west Kultur, in the shape of its Civic Shakespeare Company. Boston, too, discovered Shakespeare for a time this autumn, but hurriedly let him drop and went back to the talkies. But perhaps the dominant mid-west will mark up another triumph. It suffered an apparent defeat...
...Score--Harvard Freshmen S. Yale Freshmen S. Goals First period Fletcher (3.09): Fletcher (11.35): Stone (13.02); Putnam (13.38); Baldwin (17.07). Third period--Cookman (19.36). Referee--MacDonnel. Time--Three 20-minute periods, one ten minute overtime period...