Word: scratchings
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...roller skates, Manager Martin got England's famed roller-skating Ridstones, James & Joan, to tour the U. S. Their spellbinding exhibition of figure skating started America's roller-skating boom. Today most roller skaters, instead of going round & round in the old-fashioned way, do the Chicken Scratch, the Howdy-Do and other "called-out" (square) dances, waltz, tango and fox-trot in pairs. More ambitious skaters learn to do rockers and counters, brackets and loops, hope to be able some day to compete in the annual April tournament of the R. S. R. O. A. (Roller Skating...
...Shealy is not starting from scratch. Florida is the oldest cattle State in the union; its first herds were brought by the Spaniards 300 years ago. But by 1906 cattle ticks had so ravaged the beasts that the Government banned the interstate shipment of southern cattle. In 1930, Florida ranchers had only 431,000 cattle, one-half the 1910 total. Then State-enforced "dipping" (in arsenic solution) started a comeback. The Florida Department of Agriculture now boasts of 1,400,000 head. But many Florida cattle are still underfed and mangy, bring only $20.90 a head (against a national average...
...high scarlet collar surmounting golden epaulets, the Commandant's face was stern. Through the open window came the shouts and murmurs of the camp-the Marines' first headquarters camp in Washington. He set down the date-"Sept. 22, 1800." Over rough paper the quill began to scratch: "Lt. Henry Caldwell "Sir: Yesterday the Secretary told me that he understood one of the Lieutenants of the Navy had struck you. ... I can only say that a blow ought never to be forgiven and without you wipe away this Insult offered to the Marine Corps you cannot expect to join...
...crack veterans of the Chaco and conscripts can raise it to 97,000. The Air Force and Navy are negligible. Uruguay has an Army of 8.000, plus well-trained police and mounted Republican Guards of 5,400. Uruguay's Air Force is being built from scratch with a military-aviation school and a $5,000,000 fund to buy 400 planes and equipment, but she has no Navy worth mentioning...
...berries. They were plagued with tuberculosis, scurvy, anemia, beriberi. They had never seen a doctor, and they treated their sick with charms: sugar blown into babies' eyes to cure them of ophthalmia, haddock fin bones to ward off rheumatism, burned nail parings to drive away sea boils. A scratch with a fish hook often meant infection and the loss of a limb...