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Word: snag (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...University basketball team struck its second straight snag of the season when it met defeat at the hands of Connecticut Agricultural School by the close margin of 25 to 24 in the fifth game of the season at the Hemenway Gymnasium Saturday night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ONE POINT ENOUGH TO WIN FOR AGGIES | 2/1/1926 | See Source »

Tired and sore of foot, they there constructed rafts of logs, planks, boxes, and essayed to float down the Chitina River to McCarthy. This feat one raft accomplished without let or hindrance from rock or snag. The other, skippered by Explorer McCarthy, capsized in boiling rapids, left its passengers a 70-mile trudge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Clamberers | 7/27/1925 | See Source »

...order that the unfortunate four out of every five may understand the snag of their dental downfall, the great American Tooth Brush King, from the quiet and seclusion of Atlantic City, yesterday divulged the following information. America must use 330,000,000 tooth brushes a year; at present barely 40,000,000 are plied and discarded...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE FAMILY TOOTH BRUSH | 3/21/1925 | See Source »

...Freshmen were first given the ball on the University's thirty yard line. On the first play they ploughed through the University for three yards and on the second Zarakov got away for a 17 yard run. Then the Freshmen struck a snag. They fumbled, recovered, lost the ball on downs on the 10 yard line, and the ball went back to the 18 yard line...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SUBSTITUTES FALL BEFORE FRESHMEN | 11/1/1923 | See Source »

...conference at Lausanne struck another snag last week when the Ottoman debt came up for discussion. The various Allied representatives had to refer the question to their home governments; thus a delay was occasioned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NEAR EAST: More Procrastination | 6/11/1923 | See Source »

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