Word: scoring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...slippy, sloppy contest, the Philadelphia Eagles snowplowed through the Chicago Cardinals to 17 first downs. In the fourth period, Steve Van Buren sloshed off tackle for the game's only score, and the Eagles won the title...
...born composers who can (or cares to) catch the sights, sounds, smells and flavors of the U.S. in his music-one reason that documentary moviemakers like Pare Lorentz (The Plow That Broke the Plains) got him to compose their sound tracks. A suite from Thomson's latest film score, for Robert Flaherty's Louisiana Story, has already been given in concert form by the Philadelphia Orchestra...
...frantic '403, fences had been shortened to make the home run cheaper; and in a good many other games, the rules had been changed to accent the offense. In the '303 many a final basketball score was 34-30 or thereabouts. In Madison Square Garden fortnight ago, a college quintet, Ohio's Bowling Green, scored 97 points, the highest in the Garden's history. No less than four professional basketball teams had scored 100 or more points this season only to lose the game...
...break. The old distinction between forwards and guards was now all but forgotten. As coach of the New York (pro) Knickerbockers, Lapchick now spends most of his time setting up defenses to hold the opposition under 75 points, figuring that if he can hold them to so "low" a score he has a good chance...
...English. To be assured of just how good it was, readers had only to turn to Field Marshal Montgomery's soldierly but dry-as-dust Normandy to the Baltic, which covered much of the same ground as Crusade. There were official and semi-official Service histories by the score, but the best to set beside Ike's book were Fletcher Pratt's expert, well-written and exciting The Marines' War and Professor Samuel Eliot Morison's The Rising Sun in the Pacific, third volume of his comprehensive history of the U.S. Navy in World...