Word: scratch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Working at a U.S. Army hospital in Augsburg, West Germany, Major Vernon M. Smith put one drop of standard penicillin solution inside the lower eyelid of his subjects, and another drop on a light scratch made on the arm with a hypodermic needle. If within 20 minutes the eye did not become red, itchy or swollen, and if the inflamed area on the arm was no more than 1 cm. in diameter, it was considered safe to give the subject a full shot of the antibiotic. Only one man had a mild unfavorable reaction to the test itself; of more...
...large freshman contingent was led home by Brandy Harrison, who started with the varsity runners from scratch and produced the fifth fastest corrected time...
...race was begun amid the usual squabbles over the size of the handicaps. Dave Rosenthal, a varsity hurdler, was awarded the biggest handicap, seven minutes over the "scratch" runners and at least two minutes over all others...
...varsity cross country runners, with the one notable exception of Schlaeppi, started from scratch. The winner among this group was French Anderson, whose corrected time of 18:44 was second fastest...
...newsmen to China. Murrow's reporting has dripped with disapproval. The Murrow aphorism ("A Word for Today") that closes the newscast is often chosen to make an editorial point. Something as simple as a See It Now shot of a subject's grimace or surreptitious scratch can carry as much condemnation as a Chicago Tribune editorial...