Word: scoring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harvard 5 to 4, but Boston College later whipped them in the finals of this competition. The most cheering omen for a Crimson win today stems from the fact that the Varsity has in turn beaten this champion B. C. squad this season by a 5 to 4 score...
...Funsters looked as if they were trying to stir up a Black Sox scandal in those first two innings as they concocted over a dozen errors and raced wildly around the field. After the smoke of battle had cleared away, the impatient umpire called the game with the score still...
...heard it in my mind." "Why didn't you write it that way?" asked Toscanini. Said Verdi: "I was afraid it would be exaggerated." Said Giacomo Puccini of Toscanini, who had conducted the world premiere of his La Boheme: "Toscanini conducts a work not just as the written score directs, but as the composer had imagined it, though his hand failed him when the moment came to write down what he heard so clearly in his head...
...playing enough contemporary music, or for choosing, in the current music he does play, the second-rate or derivative. But the Maestro knows his own limits: he will not play music he is not sure he understands (although he has tried Gershwin without much success). Looking at a new score, he seldom says, "This is bad." Instead, he says, "This is not music for me." He does not trust music that does not touch his heart. He feels that he was a pioneer in his youth, and that it is now up to younger conductors to pioneer the music...
...washer field. Then it announced that it had bought Cleveland's H. J. Rand Washing Machine Corp., along with the rights to a "radically different" machine, which it hopes to put on the market next fall. With price cuts and new machine, Bendix hopes to fend off the score of new washers which have tried to break Bendix' tight grip on the market...