Word: scraped
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Almost 6000 fans poured into Penn's 60,000-seat stadium to watch the Quakers scrape by Lafayette 31-20 in the first game of the first intercollegiate football doubleheader...
...Warning System. Badly burned, the exchange has become more careful. The SEC allows a brokerage firm to have up to $20 in liabilities for every $1 of capital, but the exchange recently has begun to demand that its members quickly scrape up more capital whenever liabilities rise to more than $12 for every $1 of capital. Under this "early-warning system," the Big Board has ordered changes in 139 firms, or more than one-third of the 375 members that carry public accounts. Now 93 of those companies have brought their capital accounts into sound order; another five have transferred...
...going anywhere, however, unless the club manages to scrape up some collateral in the near future. Unfunded by the University, a-mixer next Friday night in Mem Hall is the team's only source of revenue...
...functions. Saul no longer enters a cave "to cover his feet," but "to relieve himself." To ensure that their camps would be fit for God's presence, Israelites are instructed to carry a trowel with them; "When you squat outside" the camp, orders Deuteronomy 23: 13, "you shall scrape a hole . . . and cover your excrement." Husbands and wives no longer "know" each other, but "have intercourse." The man struck down by untimely death in Job no longer has "breasts full of milk," but "loins full of vigor." ("What he was full of was clearly semen," says Sir Godfrey...
...Band-just another string and percussion group with the usual funny hats, wearing quite uncomfortably the somber scrape of civilization's salvation. What they need is a couple of horns-some professional cats who can speak with a horn a language we all can understand...