Word: scratchings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...generation is totally guilty of its own sins of omission. A major cause of chronic inaction is the very nature of Council elections. For although the '48-'49 Council has worked hard and long, its life span is only one year: it has had to learn its job from scratch, and the '49-'50 Council will also have to begin at the beginning. In addition, the hijinks often necessary to win elections sometimes mean that the best men do not get the Council seats. These troubles exist wherever there are representative elections. Before long somebody must figure...
...good deal further. In two years as head of the education program in the Truk District (in the Navy-administered U.S. Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands*), he was to teach hundreds of island boys & girls to read & write, and to build a general school system from scratch. By last week, with his tour of duty in the Pacific ended, 32-year-old Bill O'Brian, a graduate of Wake Forest College with an M.A. from the University of North Carolina, had gone far beyond his original Navy directive. He had founded 46 elementary schools, an intermediate boarding school...
...painters. Recently an Erni show in Geneva drew 3,000 people in two weeks, and raised a lot of questions. Why, the abstractionists wanted to know, did Erni sully the purity of his abstract compositions by introducing classical figures and anatomical charts? And why, asked the conservatives, did he scratch up his photographically accurate pictures with abstract shapes...
Around the Tree. Marsh Wall Products, Inc., the fourth and largest of the family's companies, was started in 1930, almost ended when a fire razed its plant and equipment in 1935. Starting up again from scratch, the brothers now have a business that employs more than 300, grossed $6,000,000 this year. They sold their 80% interest in it (Marsh friends and dealers and Masonite officials own the rest) in line with the trend among family enterprises to consolidate with bigger corporations, thus make assets more liquid to pay such things as inheritance taxes...
...English: look for emotional troubles in a patient with eczema. "He cannot weep but his skin weeps for him. Eczema patients are usually depressed, and long for love, but they can't stand love when they get it." Love, English summarized, "is an itch one can't scratch...