Word: scratchings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Plagued by lack of experienced players and woefully insufficient court facilities--the same problems that faced him in the squash season--tennis coach Jack Barnaby '32 must start from scratch in moulding his 1947 team. With no organized nucleus of talent from last year to from the basis of his squad, he is faced with the problem of picking a starting lineup from more than 200 candidates now working out at the Indoor Athletic Building before the opening matches in Easter vacation...
Italian masonry buildings, the wings of our planes and our G.I. helmets were adequate so that no one received more than a scratch from one of the minor missles...
...Younger." Step A was organizing a farm system. Says Birney Crum: "If you start a boy from scratch in high school, he's ready to graduate just about the time he's learning to play. . . . I get 'em younger." He controls basketball in the city's seven elementary schools, where Crum-trained coaches spot likely kids. Coach Crum is also director of Allentown's 17 summer playgrounds, where basketball courts are standard equipment. "Any time I come across a promising stringbean," says he, "I just naturally bring him along...
...hard to make predictions for this match or any other," he says, "but we're starting from scratch, while every other team seems to have a lot of proven...
...Marin, one of the few problems in painting is balance. "Think of the wonderful balance of squirrels," he told Helm. "They scratch themselves equally well with hind paws or fore paws without losing their balance. I like my pictures to have that kind of balance. ... I stand them up on their end, turn them upside down, until I see that, like the squirrels, they have got balance in every direction...