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...known, but John Rice does not think much of him. "All that the founder of a new school needed [in the post-Civil War South]," he says, "was a little.learning and a lot of physical strength. Sawney . . . had both." A tough man, he sometimes came to class with a scratch on his hand and "allowed it to bleed unnoticed as the boys sat in awe at the brave show...
...before the plastics industry, try to develop glass products superior to plastics, or jump into the manufacture of plastics itself. Libbey-Owens-Ford has jumped into plastics, but predicts that it will be a long time, if ever, before a plastic can be made which will advantageously equal the scratch-resistant surface of flat industrial glass or plate glass...
...Ordinary clear plastics have a "scratch resistance" about 500 times less than plate glass, but a new Pittsburgh plastic "C.R.39" is claimed to have a resistance of only ten to 30 times less than plate glass...
...once again it appears that Coach Dick Harlow Starting from scratch, with most of his lettermen lost either because of graduation or the draft, has constructed out of nothing a team which should start ticking off victories with clock-like regularity within the next three weeks...
...British World War I commander, turned up as a prisoner of war in Italy. Feather-haired, candy-faced Hinda Wassau, veteran stripteuse, swore she was going to join the WAACs. "I don't want to hold any office," she said. "I just want to start fresh from scratch." Cinedirector Cecil B. DeMille, veteran showman, turned up at work on a motorcycle, with his chauffeur in the sidecar...