Word: scratching
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...been completely "unfunny" to the reader and others to whom I have talked. I know that what I say makes small difference to you, but your "sophisticated-smart" reports on Willkie have been "hitting below the belt." You seem to believe that amateurs in politics whose voices "croak" and "scratch" are objects to be ridiculed. Your smears, very subtly put, on Willkie's every action fall flat; and your reports concerning lack of enthusiasm and cynicism at his Chicago appearance are not true...
...around officer Britain has. The first was Commander of the Mobile Division in 1937-38. Just when he had mastered tank, antitank and armored car technique, for which he had great enthusiasm, War Secretary Hore-Belisha switched him into the Anti-Aircraft Corps Command. He found it a scratch bunch of guns without instruments, searchlights or coordination. In a year he smoothed and built it into seven highly efficient up-to-date divisions...
...soldiers ever have to fight in Central or South America, large quantities of yellow-fever vaccine will be needed. The U. S. hoard of that must start almost from scratch. Surgeon General Thomas Parran recently observed that there was hardly enough yellow-fever vaccine actually on hand to immunize a single regiment...
...that the sapphire-tipped pickup will play a disc 700 times without damage; that the sapphire will survive 30,000 to 40,000 playings-about eight years of normal use. At a Manhattan demonstration, the pickup was dropped sharply upon a record, scraped roughly across its surface, made no scratch. Tone quality: about the same as in other mass-production machines...
...moment that followed, Admiral Le Luc wiped tears from his cheeks. There was a sound of a pen scratching, a sentence spoken in French: "Monsieur le General, la plume," the scratch of a second signature. It was 6:50 p.m.. German summer time...