Word: snappings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...American Press Association lunch, M. Auriol called it la guerre perlee. Since the '20s, Frenchmen have referred to a slowdown strike as une greve perlee (literally, a drop-by-drop strike). Thus, la guerre perlee means the "drop-by-drop war." Connoisseurs predicted that the French press would snap...
Publisher Jeremiah Ingersoll* had been searching for a new formula since he took over Salute in mid-1946. Last fall Ingersoll hired Vernon Pope, onetime editor of Look, and Editor Morris Weeks Jr., once of Pageant, to put some snap into Salute...
...Brown swimming team which is strong in the dash and breaststroke, but which promises little opposition in the other events, will take to the water in the Indoor Athletic Building tonight in an attempt to snap the Varsity's two-meet winning streak. The Freshmen of the two colleges will open the evening's proceedings at 7:30 o'clock, while the main event is set for 8:30 o'clock...
During the war years, when government duties carried him throughout the country, President Conant nevertheless managed to keep unbroken the string which he will snap with an empty hoe tomorrow...
...Snap Back. In Washington, a patent for a better mousetrap was awarded to Sir Isaac Newton...