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...terrible sensation," pilot Stevens declared. "We grabbed each other to see if we were both unhurt. Neither of us had a scratch. Then we slid down to earth...
...specious explanation of Cardinal Innitzer's actions. It is simply that ''Cardinal Innitzer has made a strong bid to head a national German episcopate," a church accountable only to Hitler. Lutheran Schroeder argues that German Protestantism has been divided and Hitler, "looking over the ecclesiastical scratch-sheet for winners," has found none among Protestants. The strongest of them, Martin Niemöller, has (according to Martin Schroeder) been dropped by his followers since his trial. Thus Hitler has turned to Catholicism, the faith in which he was baptized, and which now counts the nominal allegiance...
...Charlie Hutter combined track with swimming by clambering out of the pool after each lap and sprinting around the edge, in a futile effort to catch Kendall. He was hampered by a buoyant attire of three life-rings and two pairs of waterwings. The medley was the only scratch event, the others being run on a handicap basis...
Sparks Sorlein '38 also held off all handicap-hippers in the 220. His time 22.2s, was better than could do the two other scratch men, Torbert MacDonald '40 and Tudor Richards '38 who placed second and third. Freshman Don Donahue beat Mason Fernald '40 in the 220 low hurdles who started at scratch with him. His time was 24.9s. Fernald, however, had had his victory in the high hurdles which he covered in the good time...
...years ago Lester Patrick did the same thing that Connie Mack has twice done in baseball: disbanded his great team to start building another from scratch. He had paved the way for doing so. Scouting -from the mill pond up-has long been the customary procedure in big-league hockey, but Lester Patrick four years ago brought an innovation to the sport when he started a training school for likely prospects. Because Eastern Canada has been so thoroughly scoured by scouts (75% of major-league players come from either Toronto or Ottawa), Manager Patrick opened his school in Winnipeg, where...