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...rivals. Also the sixth and seventh casualties of the football season took place in hospitals. Leo Goodreau, 19, died of a broken neck in Philadelphia, calling the signals for the play in which he had been hurt. In Washington, Pa., William Charles Young had his back broken in a scratch game. In Orange, N. J., another casualty occurred. A man in a cinema theatre, watching a picture of Bruce Caldwell playing football, stood up, cheered, and dropped dead of heart failure...
Other circumstances under which a state's electoral vote can be but seldom is split are: 1) when two weak parties join forces and present a fusion ticket sharing the electoral votes according to a predetermined arrangement, 2) When enough voters go out of their way to "scratch" the names of individual electors...
This Maria knew that she could do. Secreted on her person was a lancet covered with a deadly poison; whether she would have the courage or the opportunity to administer without detection a tiny scratch upon the hands of her distinguished partners, she did not know. However, her companions carried six-shooting, surer weapons in the event that she should fail...
...fortnight ago reports and opinions conflicted. Nominee Robinson warned his party that there was an "organized effort" to beat the ticket in the South. An anti-Smith caucus was called among Texas Democrats. A "scratch Smith" movement was reported among North Carolina Democrats. To combat this sort of thing, regular Democrats threatened to keep "bolter books" and expel from the party any Democrat who abandoned the nominees...
...George Hicks salaamed snugly against the dirty groove between two rails. The second, and then a third beast swiftly passed over him, stopped, filled itself with people, slithered away. At last George Hicks clambered to the subway platform, pulled himself up quickly. He sighed pleasantly, noting that only a scratch on his nose and slimy dirt on his clothes testified to his carelessness and escape...