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Word: snap (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Snap Prophecy. In Los Angeles, a sign in a stationer's window read: "We are now taking orders for rubber bands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 28, 1944 | 8/28/1944 | See Source »

...Istanbul a friend of the Nazis was missing. Thomas Ludwig (or Lewine), Gestapo agent and "honorary Aryan," had a trap door in front of his desk which, in his heyday, he used to snap open by means of a concealed button. Said he: "In this work [spying] one must be prepared to spirit away undesirable elements without a trace." Last week Ludwig had vanished without a trace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TURKEY: Harum-Scarum | 8/14/1944 | See Source »

...That apparent casualness and man-to-man friendliness which rather appalled our disciplinarians at home disappears. Commands are tersely given and tersely acknowledged with an immediate 'Yes, sir,' and a smart salute. All trace of casualness evaporates. These men go to it with the snap of Guardsmen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - Letter from a Cousin | 8/7/1944 | See Source »

...afterthought we have decided to let our generosity overflow to the extent of making your career here absolutely a snap. In Foreign Resources, there are two cardinal rules to success...

Author: By W. M. Cousins jr. and T.x. Cronin, S | Title: The Lucky Bag | 7/18/1944 | See Source »

...signed up for journalism because he had heard it was a snap course. The high spot of his college career was a trip to Japan with the Indiana University base ball team. No athlete, he thumbed his way to the coast, worked his passage across the Pacific as a cabin boy. A few months before he was to graduate, his restlessness grew too much for him. He quit school and went to work for the La Porte...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Ernie Pyle's War | 7/17/1944 | See Source »

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