Word: scratchings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...formula picks out the theoretically fastest ("scratch") boat, assigns varying time allowances to boats that are theoretically slower. The hope was that it would allow boats designed for seaworthiness and family cruising to compete with racing machines. Bases for the formula were assumptions that were sacred 30 years ago: fast boats must have deep keels, tall masts, narrow beams; slow boats have the opposite...
Under her unorthodox rig, Storm sailed fine, both on and off the wind. She finished 3 hr. 18 min. 26 sec. behind the scratch boat. But with the extra four hours' handicap, Storm won handily, beat the fleet on corrected time...
...more money," she explains. Eventually Lata caught on. By 1949 her movies were all over the country, and her songs were played everywhere, including remote rural areas where villagers clustered around wind-up gramophones listening to Lata until all that could be heard from the records was an eerie scratch...
...building a new ship, rechristened her Berlin. Bremen was made over in similar fashion two years ago from the French Pasteur, which had been launched in 1939. Lloyd rebuilt her completely at an overall cost of $25 million. Says Bertram: "The same ship would cost $44 million starting from scratch, and we wouldn't get delivery before 1963." Entering New York harbor last week, Bremen was saluted by the outbound Berlin, received the traditional harbor welcome given for a maiden voyage...
...stage the show has an intimate, itch-and-scratch-it folksiness that makes even the dull spots endearing. On the colossal Todd-AO screen. Catfish Row covers a territory that looks almost as big as a football field, and the action often feels about as intimate as a line play seen from the second tier. What the actors are saying or singing comes blaring out of a dozen stereophonic loudspeakers in such volume that the spectator almost continually feels trapped in the middle of a cheering section...