Word: scraps
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Staff Officer's Scrap-Book during the Russo-Japanese War," by Sir Ian Hamilton...
...later Commissioners' Reports and a set of the "World's Orators." The books dealing with the Yale debate question have been transferred from Gore Hall and an effort will be made to get government documents bearing on subjects on which debates are likely to be held. A scrap-book of all debating interests in the University will be kept. The debating authorities request that members will aid the library by their donations...
...Staff Officer's Scrap-book," by I. Hamilton...
...attempted to "scrap" with a master of the art can conceive the astonishing powers it gives. When I first saw it I could not believe that if I were really "turned loose," and avoided conventional methods I could not at least make a contest. I was completely undeceived. "Turning loose" merely made the greater fall. Never have I experienced such a feeling of utter helplessness as I did in trying to avoid being thrown, and that is the experience not only of untrained foreigners in Japan, but of skillful wrestlers who have encountered the Japanese...
...question, and won by shifting the burden of proof on their opponents. The question was: "Resolved, That the best industrial interests of the United States demand the immediate, absolute abolition of all customs duties on the raw materials and rough products of iron and steel; such as pig-iron, scrap-iron and steel ingots...