Word: snatch
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hebron five, which is considered the strongest school boy team in Maine, came from behind late in the second half to snatch victory from the Crimson first year men. The 1928 quintet was handicapped after the first few minutes of play by the loss of Slocum, the brilliant right forward, and of McCurdy, the second string center, who started the game in Green's place. Both received ankle injuries which may keep them out of next Saturday's game...
...predilection for theories of education. He has already devoted much thought and ink to putting England's educational system on a sound basis, Now, either satisfied that England is saved, or convinced that she is beyond help--one can't be sure which it is--Mr. Wells volunteers to snatch the United States from deterioration...
...East boasts possession of the capital of the nation, the West is sure to drag in Kansas City, the heart of the continent". The West has long demanded, if not a President, at least a Vice-president from its ranks. Even in football they have tried to snatch glory from the East by setting up the Big Ten Conference to outshine the Big Three. And now, not content with all these usurpations, they want the Navy's annual classic with the Army...
...more coffins yielded not a sou. The eighth disclosed the body of a recently deceased War veteran; he mutilated a cold clammy hand in trying to snatch the rings from its fingers...
...political threat. The basis of all this conservative certitude and attack upon progressiveness is to be favored in the miraculous character of the religious they profess and the sense of providential care and direction under which they flourish. If Jesus is to return in clouds of glory and snatch up Brother Stratton of 57th Street, Manhattan, to serve as his prime minister or grand vizier, these tirades against modern knowledge and its exponents are quite intelligible...