Professional curiosity compels me to read the literature of the scratch sheets.

According to their scratch sheets Cartwright will have better control over his army and telepathic Corps after the initial two days.

They found some horse racing programs and scratch sheets and letters from a horse-race tipster.

His engraved, etched and scratched sheets show the animals in characteristic movements and positions in a landscape environment.

And at the Baghdad Horsemanship Club, several thousand men crowded the rail, studying scratch sheets and swigging beer.

Another competing syndicate news service, Dan Serritella's Blue Scratch Sheet, was also established in Chicago, however, it soon went out of business.

When Mickey arrived, the usual crowd of dirty, tired-looking men were standing on the street in front of the O.T.B., smoking and reading their racing programs and scratch sheets.

The wallet contained snapshots of the victim, a bus ticket stub, a clipping from a horse racing scratch sheet and identification cards for Elspeth Evelyn Long and Bobbie Long.

There was a folder of loose scratch sheets or pages torn from memorandum pads on which O'Flanagan had, over many years, jotted down ideas for poems, stray stanzas, and favorite phrases or quotations.

"My waking hours were spent playing cards on the job, spending as much time as possible at the stockbroker's office watching the ticker, shooting craps in the hallway and studying the scratch sheet and baseball scores."

On "Scratch Sheet" from "This Is One Time, Baby," both guitars and piano trill and swivel and swing through long harmonized lines with the guitars, on the higher notes, slightly breaking up into purely electric dissonance; the lines are answered by sly, off-key rebuttals.

Mining late modernism is an area of wide currency, encompassing Karyn Olivier's trompe l'oeil construction of a cheaply ornate coffee table supporting a plain white pillar, and Marco Breuer's drawings, if that's what to call them: delicately scratched sheets of photographic paper, making multicolored stripes.

In their revolutions, Atkin Pace's conspicuous sets - a hotel room where Erwin is holed up with scratch sheets, his house in Ozone Heights, a barroom where he first meets up with Patsy and cronies - creak less than the play, which neither wins nor falls into place in this production.