Word: scratchings
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Handicap Track Meet came to an end yesterday afternoon when the pole vault event was held. R. R. Impink 3M took first place when he made 13 feet 4 inches with a handicap of 2 feet 1 inch. Oscar Sutermeister '32 garnered second leaping 12 feet 7 inches from scratch. In the third position was G. F. Bennett '33 who made 12 foot 7 inches with a handicap of 1 foot 1 inch...
High jump--Won by H. W. Huntington '34 (7in.), 5ft. 7in.; second, N. P. Beveridge '32, (scratch), D. A. Herman '32, (scratch), H. C. Thacher '33 (scratch), and E. C. Devereux '34 (4in.). Height...
...success of the show depends on the realism of its staging. While latitude is graciously granted a Shakespearian company in dealing with the setting of a drama which has a twelfth century background, so commonplace a mode of transportation as an underground railway must come up to scratch in every way. It must be said, to the credit of the producers of the "Subway Express", that they have managed this feature of their presentation eminently satisfactorily...
...door after door, arrived at the bullpen where many Negroes huddled, praying. They stripped Thomas Shipp, dragged him out to the jail yard, strung him to a windowbar until he was dead, lynchee No. 10 of the year. They bashed Abe Smith unconscious with a sledgehammer, let women trample & scratch him, carried him a block away and hung him to a maple in the Courthouse yard, lynchee...
Near the height of artistic anonymity are those painstaking workmen in government office who scratch designs for postage stamps on metal dies. For every hundred philatelists who know the value of a one-cent postoffice Mauritius ($20,000) scarcely one knows the name of its engraver, J. Barnard. No such anonymity is the fate of Stamp Engraver Sanchez Toda, designer of the Spanish Goya memorial stamps which reached U. S. post offices last week. Cables carried his name round the world, foreign reformers held high their hands in horror...