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Word: snatch (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Henry Alden Clark, Founder of Crimson in 1873, Pays Tercentenary Visit Here | 9/28/1936 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Storm Over Steel | 7/6/1936 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crime | 6/8/1936 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HEPTAGONAL TRACK MEET ON SATURDAY ON SOLDIERS FIELD | 5/7/1936 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Program for Picker | 3/23/1936 | See Source »

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