Word: scratch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Winner Crotty and also third and fourth place winners L. A. Dimond '41 and D. H. Mitchell '41 were among the first group to start. Howell, having had cross country experience at Stowe School, England, had only the one minute and fifty second advantage over the scratch contingent. The course is entirely flat, following the cinder path skirting the Charles as far as the Watertown bridge, across, and back along the opposite side to the finish line lying directly across from the Dillon Field House...
...Browning '41 (6:40); R. A. Burns '41 (6:40); J. R. McLoughlin '41 (3:50); R. B. Nichols--'41 (1:50); C. H. Oldfather '41 (1:50); F. L. Porter, Jr. '40 (2:10); P. C. Brooks '40 (3:50); J. W. Erhard '38 (scratch); S. C. Madey '40 (3:50); W. P. (Tuttle '40 (scratch); G. P. Gardner III '39 (1:50); J. C. Wells '40 (2:10); Roswell Brayton '39 (scratch...
...English G. P. (general practitioner) who does everything from confinements to corn-cutting has no time, soon no desire, to keep up-to-date. The medical bigwigs are smothered in red tape. Worst of all, perhaps, are the specialists- typified by the word "Harley Street"- who exploit the rich, scratch one another's backs to their mutual profit, in some cases make fortunes on the side by performing hush-hush abortions for careless socialites...
...earmarked for the restoration of lands suitable for wild life preserves. It was not forthcoming, but famed Cartoonist-Conservationist Jay Norwood ("Ding") Darling passed the hat around to various Government agencies before he resigned as Chief of the U. S. Biological Survey, had managed to scratch up $8,500,000. From o.ther sources a total of $21,000,000 was finally obtained. In Denver, at the annual convention of the Western Association of State Game & Fish Commissioners, Ira Noel Gabrielson, rotund present chief of the Survey, hefted himself to his feet to explain what had happened since his bureau took...
...dogs," he admitted, "I would hardly have believed that I would sometime present the subject of cat diseases before a group of veterinarians. However, constant association with any species of animal removes many dislikes." Some of the things constant association had taught Dr. Parker: "Very few cats bite or scratch except through fear"; a cat "can throw it [vomit] farther and harder than any other species of domestic animal" ; epilepsy is rather common in kittens ; castration of male kittens" should be done at about six months of age, spaying before the first year; bladder stones are very common...