Word: scoring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...street-corner hoodlums, speakeasy patrons, cabaret "artisteés," "guests" at red-light hotels, many a citizen who could not quickly explain his evening's stroll. Within twelve hours 917 assorted characters were arrested, of whom 271 were found to have police records. Revolvers were taken from a score. Soon the police sieve began to leak. More than half of those arrested were released for lack of evidence. Bondsmen and police court lawyers buzzed busily to free the others. No. 1 gangsters captured: none...
...Lords" is that genial golfer George William Coventry, 9th Earl of Coventry, two years younger than Lord North, and one of the last two or three men in England to wear a top hat every day, even with a sack suit. The Countess of Coventry, past her fourth score of years, likes to say; "I can still do my five miles in jig time on a tricycle, and how many of your young people can?" As a private collection, the Earl's gallery of historic oil paintings at Croome Court is second to few. His boasts?he has been twice...
...Ralph Arthur Reynolds, 38, of San Francisco last week, intrigued doctors and criminologists. Where did he get his data? At California's San Quentin prison where he and Dr. Leo Leonidas Stanley, 43, prison physician, discovered that every one of the inmates had some abnormal glandular stigma. Three score they treated by surgery or with glandular extracts. All responded with "surprisingly beneficial" results, suggesting therefore a way of reforming criminals...
...Score--West Point 15, Harvard 7 1-2. Goals--Cooke 6, Wing 3, Brandt 3, Haskell 3, Cusack 3, Jenkins 3, Rodgers 2, Beebe. Fouls--Luton 2, Cooke. Time--Six 5-minute chukkers. Referee--Captain Henry Westphalinger. Timer and scorer--J. Wilkie...
Although Pell won straight games, the score in no way indicates the closeness of the match for each rally meant many brilliant shots and the players continually had the gallery on its feet...