Word: scratch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shown that he has a valuable contribution to make as a dependable blocking back. The veteran Hank Wood, and Fred Kieckhefer, a Sophomore who came up from the Junior Varsity to face Brown is this capacity, will be ready to take over should Starbuck not be up to scratch against John Harvard...
...last 76 pages, covering the Sino-Japanese war, hardly do more than scratch the surface of the contemporary Chinese scene. But Moment in Peking, far superior to Author Lin's whimsical The Importance of Living, may well become the classic background novel of modern China...
Starting from scratch, Spaeth's Music for Fun (Whittlesley House, $2) tells how to make musical instruments out of bottles, tin cans, old bones and nails. For ambition-maddened readers it even goes a step further, telling how to make up a melody, "How to play the piano in no lessons." Suggester Spaeth even suggests how to make conversation about great composers. Sample conversational bung starters...
...safe. That was a mistake. All three of the cruisers were torpedoed and sunk, with a loss of 60 officers and 1,400 men. Long afterward it was learned that a single submarine, the U-9, had done the job alone, launching six torpedoes, and had escaped without a scratch though fired on by both Hogue and Cressy...
...Scratch a Harvard man and you find the urge to form an organization. Provide a good issue, and the urge becomes irresistible...