Word: snatch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Arrived upstairs Mr. Clark was conducted to the President's chair, in which he sat with much grace and case, chatting quietly while the cameras were busy. Then with a snatch of an old banquet song on his lips he was off to the Tercentenary exercises and from there back to Erie, Pennsylvania...
Thus last week did the mighty American Iron & Steel Institute, speaking for nine out of ten U. S. Steelmasters, snatch up Labor's greasy gauntlet, thrown down as the third and fiercest attempt to unionize the historically non-union steel industry began...
...ensuing hustle and bustle of preparations for the dance, the committee chairman was very busy. Time passed quickly, but finally he was able to snatch a few minutes off to glance at a newspaper. There, on the society page, was a story blazoned in caps (the reporter had done his job well) which related in detail how the popular debutante was to grace the forth-coming Cambridge festivities...
...Venzke competes only in the 1500-meter run, Cornell's flying Johnny Meaden is almost sure to snatch the six points in the 800-meter race...
...South's economy. An idea of their own is not to sell the harvesters but to lease them to planters who promise to maintain minimum wage and maximum work-hour scales, abolish child labor and accept collective bargaining. If the promises are not kept the Rusts would snatch back the planter's picker...