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Word: snap (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...young mother, Princess Elizabeth was away from home too much, could quiet down for a spell. After a two-week visit in Rome with husband Prince Philip, she landed back at London airport where little Prince Charles was waiting with a welcome-home kiss, and photographers were waiting to snap it. Foiled by Elizabeth, who gave her son a hearty hug in the privacy of the plane, they had to settle for a more dignified picture of royalty. At his first press conference in Paris, Defense Mobilizer Charles E. Wilson began: "I have come to talk things over with General...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, may 7, 1951 | 5/7/1951 | See Source »

...Times found plenty of facts & figures to support the theory that a good athlete is likely to have the edge when it comes to smoothing the way with scholarships, cash benefits and snap courses. Items...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Free Riders | 4/2/1951 | See Source »

...forgotten a thing we knew 30 years ago. The aircraft will need cable with weight on it, and the message center will need a couple of fish poles [used to hold messages aloft so liaison planes can snap them up in flight]. By God, I haven't seen a message pickup since I've been here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMAND: The Airborne Grenadier | 3/5/1951 | See Source »

November 18--Crimson edges Brown 14 to 13 to snap its longest losing streak in history at nine games...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ban of Lampoon, Graduate Center Opening Mark Fall | 2/5/1951 | See Source »

...development. The British put on an unprecedented peacetime austerity program, jumped their exports enormously, rebuilt their war-shattered cities, and installed a giant socialization scheme in a short five years. America, meanwhile, insisted on devaluation, of the pound, which turned out to be just the stimulant needed to snap Britain out of the dollar doldrums...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Prodigious Albion | 12/15/1950 | See Source »

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