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Furthermore, the only one of these measurer up for immediate consideration was the Social Security Bill, which last week started from scratch when the House took it up for debate...
...Crimson needed only four hits to down the Bengal, while Lincoln was denied a no-hit, no-run performance through a scratch infield single by Dick Bell in the sixth and Ken Sandbach's long drive to left in the ninth...
...Scratch a stolid Swiss and you have scratched the most orderly of men. In Berne last week the Swiss Government decided they could no longer wink at the disorderly Nazi practice of sending German spies abroad to kidnap or murder Germans who have "opposed Hitler" (TIME, Feb. 4). The case of Berthold Jacob seemed to Swiss one kidnapping too many, and last week spunky little Switzerland made it a cause celebre. Thundered Swiss Foreign Minister Giuseppe Motta: "The Jacob affair constitutes a serious violation of Swiss sovereignty capable of shaking the destiny of Switzerland...
While the leaders of France and Italy sit in a castle on the shore of Lake Maggiore, scratch their heads, and wonder what, if anything, can be done to curb Adolf Hitler, Great Britain keeps an anxious world guessing. A week ago Stresa took on the light of a New Jerusalem in men's minds. It seemed that for the first time in history Europe had stopped being Europe and was putting her cards down flat on the table for a definite showdown...
...reason upon the conduct of its hour-examinations--thereby setting a startling precedent--and puts the class to work precisely on the hour. While the Memorial Hall bells are still noisily vying with each other, the pens of a fortunate few, having no class the hour before, begin to scratch away, rolling up a seven minute handicap over the poor innocents who think that the catalogue really is serious when it says: "ALL CLASSES BEGIN AT SEVEN MINUTES AFTER THE HOUR...