Word: scratch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...training of a paraplegic starts almost from scratch. David could not dress himself or put on braces without help, could barely sit erect. But after six weeks of push-ups and other exercises to strengthen arms, shoulders and abdominal muscles, he was ready to begin crutch work. To walk, he had to learn to swing his body by gravity, like a pendulum. But learning to walk is only part of it. For a paraplegic, getting in & out of a chair or opening a door is a major undertaking, made up of many intricate, precisely timed movements which take weeks...
Dave Farrell grounded out, third to first, scoring Peterson. Neal walked putting men on first and second. Florentino kept the rally going with a scratch hit loading the bases. But Johhny Harper, the B.U. twirler, fanned Weeks, ending the inning and the game with the Terriers still out in front 10 to 6. HARVARD ab r h po a e Harford, ef 3 1 2 2 0 1 Farrell, ss 4 0 0 2 2 0 Neal, p, 3b 1 0 0 1 0 0 Fiorentino, 1b 4 0 2 4 1 2 Senseney...
...gracious, my good gracious," laments a homeward-bound G.I. in Brewsie and Willie, "Oh my good gracious, oh my good gracious . . . my good gracious. I just could kind of just cry when I think we all got to scratch around and worry, worry and scratch around, and then those bills, pay everything on the installment plan, and coming in and coming in, oh dear, sometimes I just burst out crying in my sleep, I am older than you boys ... I could just burst out crying...
...Time. The Blue had been running largely on NBC's left-over programs. Ed Noble had to start almost from scratch. He has done best with his stable of commentators, probably the most popular on the air. Noble has also done well with ABC financially. He has boosted the number of network stations from 168 to 204, the gross network sales from $14,000,000 to $40,000,000. (One reason: in the boom war years ABC has had more time to sell than NBC or Columbia.) Gross profit rose from $9,250 in 1942 to an estimated...
Shackles to Studies. Fisk began in 1866, in abandoned Union hospital barracks, and its first books were bought by selling a pile of old iron handcuffs found in the barracks. Most of the first students were freed slaves, who had to start from scratch, work up from the three Rs to college subjects (some took ten years). Eleven of the students barnstormed the U.S. and Europe as the "Fisk Jubilee Singers," in three years raised $100,000 for the University by singing spirituals...