Word: scratchings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fait. Happily this glorious remnant of chivalry is not yet laid to rest in France and steel once more flashes against steel for so slight a provocation as a disagreement over theatre tickets. Alas, although the spirit flames as before, the flesh lacks practice; the combat ended with a scratch on the throat. So fades the glory of a once splendid...
...McCrary, skipper of the ZR1, sees " a revolution in transportation technique." Captain Anton Heinen, German test pilot and consultant in the construction of the ZR1, predicts the elimination of disasters due to poor piloting and improper construction-the Captain has carried 100,000 passengers in the air without a scratch-and the ousting of ocean liners by dirigibles. Certainly an air journey of five days from San Francisco to New Zealand instead of 22 by sea is tempting...
...Polo Grounds-Yale 5, Princeton 1-gave "Mo" Berg, Tiger shortstop, difficult opportunities to which he rose so satisfactorily that Brooklyn National League scouts in the stands promptly offered him a Major League contract. Berg played his first game with Brooklyn last week, making one hit (a scratch, through the pitcher's box) and fielding perfectly...
Although Joie Ray did not break the world's record in the special mile race yesterday in the Stadium, he ran an excellent four laps, cressing the line in 4 minutes 15 1-5 seconds. Starting from scratch, the national amateur champion did the first quarter in 60 2-5 seconds and completed the second lap in 2 minutes 6 2-5 seconds, after passing and Harris, who started with leads of 85 and 110 yards, respectively. At the three quarters mark, Watters, whose handicap was 150 yards, was still leading Ray, whose time for that distance was 3 minutes...
...world's record in the broad jump, will give all other contestants in that event a large advantage, the smallest handicap being that of Murphy of the University squad, who has been allotted 10 inches. In the high jump Brown of Dartmouth and Murphy of Newark will be the scratch competitors, with the three lowest handicapped Crimson entrants being Morse, Greeley, an Gerould, cach of whom has an advantage of 5 inches. Harwood and West of the B. A. A., in the absence of Davis, will be the only scratch men in the pole vault, D. D. Reidy coming after...