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...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 »

...second period, Dudley's John Whittaker tied the game up at 12 to 12 on a long pass from McMorrow. Barbour then piled up Yale's lead with a snap pass to Hager for a touchdown...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dudley Drops Touch Crown To Timothy Dwight, 36-12 | 11/30/1950 | See Source »

...rule will eliminate such tactics. Once the center has assumed his stance and has adjusted the ball for the snap, he may neither move the ball nor change its position in any way until actually snapping...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Grid Rules Shift On Conversions, Safeties, Centers | 9/27/1950 | See Source »

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