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Word: scratch (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pulleys and counterweights, which allowed it to run out with the plane. The cable stood the shock of the 950-h.p. machine moving at 100 miles per hour. It held the remains of the plane, checked its speed, and, relatively speaking, eased it to the ground. With a scratch on his left arm the German ace stepped out of the wreck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Zurich Meet | 8/9/1937 | See Source »

Vacation time to many of those connected with the Museum on Divinity Street means practical research work in the field. This summer undergraduates, Graduate students, geology section men, and professors are returning to old haunts to map, scratch, dig, and theorize in pursuit of science...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Geologists Come Out from Recesses of Museum To Collect Fresh Supply of Rocks and Records | 6/21/1937 | See Source »

...third win in four starts during the past two weeks, Curtiss held the opposing batters to four scratch hits for a single run in the first eight frames. Tiring in the ninth, the sopohomore right-hander gave way to Ed Ingalls, after allowing four base knocks and three tallies. Ingalls forced the Tufts batter to ground out to the pitcher's box retiring the side...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crew Works at Red Top---Baseball Team Wins | 6/14/1937 | See Source »

...Although the Harvard Bureau has been conducting intensive research on all of the technical aspects of traffic accidents and congestions, for a period of more than ten years, it recognizes that neither it nor--the other agencies working upon the situation have done more than scratch the surface. It is true, however, that there is now available a relatively simple formula of education, enforcement and engineering which, properly applied by training personnel, can invariably reduce traffic accidents and increase traffic efficiency...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Thirty-One Charter Students Graduate From America's First Traffic School | 6/14/1937 | See Source »

...TIME, May 10, scoops the bookies, tipsters, touts and scratch-sheets by picking the Derby one, two, three, and cinching it with pictures on the front page! Of course there might have been some question about what time of day to start that "clockwise" business, but I figure a guy could stay in coffee and cakes with nothing but piker bets to "show" as long as TIME was picking them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 31, 1937 | 5/31/1937 | See Source »

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