Word: scratchings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Moore '29 is in a class by himself for the meet tomorrow, as his recent heave of the javelin 191 feet two and one-half inches from scratch in the University handicap meet is well out ahead of Dartmouth's best. Harden won this event for the Green last Saturday by a throw of 167 feet eight inches...
...axiom that Jews are always plentiful as traders but scarce as tillers of the soil has been rudely upset by the Soviet regime in Russia. The State monopoly of trade has crowded out Jewish traders and forced them to scratch and sow the ground. During 1927 not less than 8,000 Russian retailers became farmers, according to Soviet statistics. Last week this process of readjustment, painful to Jews, seemed about to be smoothed by a philanthropic gift of $5,000,000 from famed Julius Rosenwald, chairman of Sears, Roebuck & Co. (mail orders...
...directed by Robert Land, it lasts almost an hour and is well worth looking at. The characters are so capably cast, the acting is so good that one's eyes seem to hear real voices, the click of heels in corridors, the clink of beer mugs, the faint scratch of a pen. These German actors have a serious, slow, almost stubborn way of performing which is utterly convincing. The shooting of the scenes from striking angles, the sudden change of-tempo and the superb lighting effects make Primanerliebe another reason why U. S. producers should take some more hints...
...Burns will state his convictions about current peace movements, which he considers useless, as they are "fundamentally unsound. They don't deal with the selfishness and savagery of our present industrial system, which lies at the root of all wars. It is ridiculous to scratch the surface and try to improve it if that below is unsound," he said...
...handicap fall pole vault, held yesterday afternoon, F. B. Clark '28, who had been entered at scratch, cleared 12 feet and won the event. C. E. Dunlap '30 cleared a fraction under 11 feet, and with a one foot handicap, took second honors. R. R. Impink '28, with a nine-inch handicap, and F. V. Weeks '30, with a 15-inch handicap, both totalled 11 feet nine inches and tied for third...