Word: snatch
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...ignorance and narrowness are cropping out every once in a while in some such as way this. They read sensational headlines of what two or three men do, or perhaps even more, out of nearly three thousand. With an eagerness characteristic of the man expelled for riotous behavior, they snatch at the chance to give Harvard a vicious "dig." "Who goes to Harvard to pursue a course of study" they say and you can almost see them smile with satisfaction at the readiness of their own wit and the depth of their observation. We wish that a few such writers...
...Outwards." It is a thought full paper urging our nation to be ready to back up the aggressive foreign policy which it is bound, sooner or later, to adopt and predicting that the islands of the Carribean Sea are the plums which all nations will soon be trying to snatch...