Word: scratching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Handicaps will be assigned on the basis of an individual's racing experience. The varsity cross-country team starts from scratch, the freshmen runners get a two-minute advantage, and others are assigned handicaps according to the track coaches' estimate of their skill...
...appear and answer questions, then he becomes simply a display--a dancing bear," Howe said. "It would be irresponsible for students to have him come just to watch the bear stand up and scratch himself...
...plastic lines Spencer also makes. Spencer received several other suitors before settling on Gulf. Mrs. Helen Spencer, the largest shareholder, with 14% of the 3,000,000 outstanding shares, particularly liked what she felt was Gulf's "empathy" toward the firm that her late husband started from scratch...
...brightened by exploits testifying to the ingenuity and dogged work of its citizens. Canada's Dr. Wilder Penfield, one of the world's top neurosurgeons, returned last week from Red China and told of a University of Shanghai medical team that built a heart-lung machine from scratch in 18 months. When they tested it with dogs, the animals died of air bubbles in the heart. The Chinese went back to work, guided only by articles in medical journals, and three years later came up with a far better machine which has now been used in 60 successful...
...interrelated land uses of the surrounding areas are planned together. Even today, most big planning projects consist either of creating a new community in a relative void?such as Brasilia?or replanning part of an existing city, as with the usual urban renewal project. The prospect of planning from scratch an entire complex within a major population center rather than hundreds of miles away from it?and to do it under private rather than governmental auspices?would seem to most planners an impossible dream...