Word: scratch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...static-free, interference-free, does not wobble, fade or burst at the seams. The enthusiasts say that they hear music faithful to the topmost tweet, the bottommost woof; that speech seems to come from the next chair, instead of the next telephone booth; that if an announcer should scratch a match, listeners would hear it burst into flame; that between numbers there is no hum, no crackle, just black, velvety nothing. Said one marveling first listener: "Why, this thing can broadcast silence...
...Miler Glenn Cunningham: an indoor, handicap mile in which he conceded up to 40 yards to seven opponents; time 4:19.6; in Manhattan. Famed Miler Luigi Beccali refused his 15-yard handicap, started from scratch, failed to place. Next night, on the radio, Glenn said he would retire after this season...
...would have to mass still more men, concentrate still more artillery fire. Thus dryly at first, in terms of headquarters thinking, Romains begins to prepare the reader for the terrific attack that is to come. His camera is still high enough to take in the whole front: "a continuous scratch over which [the troops] formed like a scab and at every point of which they faced the opposing lines with a ceaseless crackling of fire, a lethal trembling, as though something tormented, burning, and unapproachable had become installed as a natural feature of the landscape." The camera narrows to young...