Word: snatch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...commonly said that $2,000,000 has been spent by Isabella and rich Hungarian associates to promote the candidacy of her son Albrecht for the Throne. This was the great lady's second attempt to snatch the Crown of St. Stephen for one of her blood. Before the War she tried, with the consent and active encouragement of doddering old Emperor Franz Josef, to marry one of her daughters to the heir apparent, Archduke Franz Ferdinand. At her palace in Pressburg, where he had been invited to fall in love with her daughter, the obstinate young man conceived a blind...
...flying above him. Intermittently, for a half-hour, they continued to cheer while, with Daredevil still dangling from the bottom rung, the plane swooped and circled low. Then with horror they saw that the acrobat was tangled in the ladder, was too exhausted to free himself. Rescuers tried to snatch the swinging body but it was tangled too badly. The plane had to land. Daredevil Willie Hundertmark was dragged to death...
...better ones that has been played on Soldiers Field this season and certainly one of the more interesting to watch. It was a nip and nick affair that left doubt as to the outcome to the very end. In the last of the ninth Harvard made a bid to snatch the game out of the fire but with the tieing and winning runs on the bases Balsley tightened up and got both Bassett and Des Roches on easy pop-ups. Here the squeeze play might have worked to advantage but Bassett evidently had orders to hit and hit hard...
...Saint Gandhi grew wroth at British authorities who have been methodically seizing salt evaporated by his followers. Said he: "It is sheer vulgarity to snatch salt from our Satyagrahis [Nationalist volunteers]. It is my earnest desire that the Satyagrahis should not part with their salt in spite of the most severe injury to their hands." His chief worry was that he had not been arrested, though his second son was jailed last week as his first was fortnight ago for violating the salt laws, making "seditious utterances...
...runners H. F. Kollmyer '33 is expected to score high in both hurdle races and in the 100, since he took three first places in the winter meet with Andover, N. P. Dodge '33, who won the 440 two consecutive years in the Harvard Inter-scholastics is expected to snatch a first in this race tomorrow. In the hammer throw Alfred Kidder 2nd '33, star weight thrower for Andover last year, is expected to garner a first place