Word: snatch
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lane '24, captain-elect for next year, E. L. Lane '24, and S. H. Ordway 1L., last year's captain and University champion, whose work has stamped them as close competitors for premier honors. Boyce should be the favorite, but any one of the five is apt to snatch the championship away. The foils tournament is open to all members of the University, but men intending to compete are asked to leave their names at the fencing room of Hemenway Gymnasium before noon today. The matches which will take place in the fencing room may be attended by members...
...Becker of the Annapolis team, winner of last year's intercollegiate meet, is favored to repeat his victory, but Captain Walker of Yale, the national junior champion, and Captain Bencoe of Columbia have proved their worth this season. Bencoe, especially, has stamped himself as the most likely candidate to snatch the crown from last year's champion...
Does he at dinner parties snatch his fork from his plate as the waitress removes it, thus assuring himself of a complete equipment when his desert is served? If so there is no more room for doubt. There is your Harvard...
...Freshman team, who said that though the team had been handicapped by injuries, they had the spirit to carry them through to victory. Harvard was famed for its lucky teams, he said, but this luck was nothing more than the fighting spirit which has so often enabled Harvard to snatch victory from defeat...
...have suspected this particular youth and the other who creep up behind one to snatch the book over-due at the desk of almost everything but never before of humor. Let us be thankful for small blessings...