Word: scorings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rainy day at Brule, the President shot a shotgun at sailing clay pigeons and had the satisfaction of seeing 24 out of 25 break in mid-air-a surprising score for one new to trapshooting.* At Lewis, occurred a feat even more surprising. As their fishing boat slipped around a bend in the stream, President Coolidge, Broker Lewis and Secret Service Man Walter Ferguson beheld a tall brown crane standing on one leg in the water, 20 yards away. Cranes eat trout. Broker Lewis pays a bounty of $2 for each crane killed on his acres...
Harvard men were glad: George Roerich, Nicholas' son, was well. Brilliant young Orientalist, he studied there. Perfect in more than a score of Asiatic dialects, on this expedition he was his father's facile interpreter and pacifier of obstreperous brigands. He is a painter, too. His brother Sviatoslav is a portraitist. Sviatoslav has just reached Darjeeling from...
...champion, rugged, cigar-smoking Frank James Marshall had started well, but finished only seventh. José R. Capablanca, Cuban, former world's champion, took second money. Though his final score was less than Bogoljubow's, a moral victory was his, for he had defeated Bogoljubow in their only personal tilt...
Fortunately the White Star Line score was immediately countered by its rival, the Cunard Line, one of whose skippers was quick to curry popular favor by declaring that his observations showed nothing wrong with the Gulf Stream. Finally the North-German Lloyd's Commodore, Herr Johnsen, scathingly observed that of course the observations of such fast ships as to the currents they were cutting through must naturally be treated with reserve...
...least embarrassed, went on playing her steady, irreproachable game. Sixteen years ago she became a grandmother. "Afternoon naps?" she said. "None of it for me." In 1923, when she was 62, Mrs. Fox played in the Belleair Heights, Fla., tournament. In the finals she had a medal score of 77 which beat famed Glenna Collett, her opponent...