Word: scratchings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pepping up the air breathed by the Dictator in his suburban Belvidere Palace. Last week the grim old Marshal threw a cordon of his fanatically loyal troops around the President's palace, shooed into it the Cabinet, Diet and Senate and provided Professor Moscicki with pen & ink. Scratch, scratch the puppet President signed a new Constitution (TIME, Dec. 25, 1933) which sweeps into the dustbin every vestige of Polish democratic institutions and regularizes in legal form the governing of Poland by what the new Constitution calls her "Elite"-actually her Army officers and ex-soldiers. Since the old Marshal...
...beak the spell. Where the nose has lost much is in its powers of prophecy. Time was, when our nose itched, we knew we were to hear good news be kissed by a fool, or take a long journey. Now we just call it an itch and scratch. That's civilization...
Furthermore, the only one of these measurer up for immediate consideration was the Social Security Bill, which last week started from scratch when the House took it up for debate...
Suppose the U. S. could scrap its codes, constitutions, institutions, traditions, start anew from scratch. Many a Utopian has meditated that heady impossibility. More realistic, Chairman William Yandell Elliott of Harvard's Department of Government last week presented a series of proposals for revamping the present Constitutional structure to accord with modern political and economic realities.* If adopted, his proposals might produce a scene like the following...
...Crimson needed only four hits to down the Bengal, while Lincoln was denied a no-hit, no-run performance through a scratch infield single by Dick Bell in the sixth and Ken Sandbach's long drive to left in the ninth...