Word: scoring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From Pandora's box of diseases, one, psittacosis, a stranger in the U. S., escaped last week. Two people were diagnosed dead from it, a score deathly sick-at Baltimore, Annapolis, New York, Providence, Pittsburgh, Toledo, Warren (Ohio).* All victims owned parrots newly imported from South America. The birds presumably transmitted the disease, which is peculiarly a parrot fever. The birds apparently carry the germs in their mucous membranes and in insects bred in the warmth of their underwings...
...percentages of gate receipts there was $10,000 up for the winner of this final 50-point match?every point worth, therefore, $200. For once Layton was not smiling; Reiselt, with lines standing out in his sallow face, played like a machine. At the end of 31 innings the score was 23 for Layton, 22 for Reiselt. The smoky, crowded room was hot, and each man dried his hands before shooting. After they had both missed in the 41st frame, Layton ran eight, and, when Reiselt missed, made the three that gave him his title for another year...
...individual flyer, $9,000 is no great income. But to the operating companies the salary item in the aggregate is enormous. The companies, as they became efficient business organizations, wanted to regularize their salaries, reduce them. None dared until last week. Then Curtiss-Wright Flying Service, which operates two score flying fields in all parts of the U. S., pioneered. The new Curtiss-Wright pay schedule offers as maximum yearly bases: $3,600 to chief pilots; $3,000 to long experienced pilots, plus $3 per hour for single-motored ships, $4 per hour for multi-motored ships...
Entering the game as underdog according to pre-game prognostications, and facing a 10 to 1 score against it after the first few minutes of play, the Harvard basketball team came from behind to defeat West Point 30 to 25 in Hemenway Gymnasium on Saturday night...
...seemed inevitable that Harvard would lose the game, for Columbia had trampled on the Crimson 44 to 17 and yet been defeated by Army 37 to 31. And when the cadets began to roll up the score in the first few minutes until the score stood at 10 to 1, all predictions seemed likely to be fulfilled...