Word: scratch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...scale was nothing new to Builder Kahn. In 1928 the Soviet Government, after combing the U.S. for a man who could furnish the building brains for Russia's industrialization, offered the job to Kahn. Twenty-five Kahn engineers and architects went to Moscow. They had to start from scratch. Russia not only lacked factories, but the pencils and drafting boards to design them. There was only one blueprint machine in Moscow. Six months were taken up in compiling a Russian-English technical dictionary so that the U.S. engineers could make the Russians understand what they were talking about...
...that at least 15 bombs and ten torpedoes hit the Jap ship. The Ryukaku had completed her third circle when she sank, with most of her planes still aboard. Aboard the Lexington, radio receivers and loudspeakers caught the happy voice of Lieut. Commander Robert Dixon, leading a bomber squadron: "Scratch one flattop, scratch one flat...
Dick Harlow must begin the rebuilding process all over again, starting almost from scratch. Of the four or five outstanding underclassmen who won letters last fall only Captain Don Forte has survived the accelerated academic program and will be back for another season. In addition to the terrific June graduation toll which took Chub Peabody, Loren MacKinney, Vern Miller, Dick Pflster, Captain Franny Lee, George Heiden, Tom Gardiner, etc., Juniors Don McNicol, Jack Morgan, and Johnny Page will play no more football for Harvard...
...agreed with all this. What made us sit up and scratch our chins was the obvious difference in approach toward Eastern and Western colleges. All Harvard and Yale rated was a few dry comments about "No 'talent scouts' have appeared this year, as of old, from big U. S. corporations" or, "Bearish on futures in business and Wall Street, Yale men don't expect to make much money any more...
...first game was the most crowd-raising contest the Varsity has played all season. By the middle of the sixth the visitors had accumulated a 4-0 lead, aided by Lee Turner's two-run scratch homer over Cleo O'Donnell's head. The Crimson came back with two tallies knocked home by Gerry Callanan's double with bases loaded...