Word: snatch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Smith led the Crimson to the halftime climax with eight points. His work on offense coupled with Chip Gannon and Walt McCurdy on defense enabled Harvard to snatch a nine point lead before the denouement came later...
...telephone girls and elevator operators all lined up with outstretched hand by the hotel desk. Racing for his taxicab, the diplomat slapped a bill into each eager hand along the line and finally reached the street. Then he turned, stopped, stared in dismay for two seconds and returned to snatch back the last bill. It had been pressed into the proffered hand of Turkey's President Inonu, who had just dropped by to bid the Indian farewell...
...dictating machine ($637.69) has a wafer-thin, Vinylite plastic record which can be erased and used over again by putting it in a machine which heats and whirls it for 29 seconds. ¶Thomas Mechanical Collator Corp., of New York City, has a machine whose metal fingers simultaneously snatch sheets in proper sequence from as many as five piles, staple them for distribution. ¶ International Business Machines' master clock keeps all electric clocks in a building on time, even those plugged into ordinary sockets. It corrects them every hour by an electronic impulse which it sends out over...
Things don't look so one-sided, however, for the Crimson squad of Freshmen. They are, in themselves, a promising bunch of runners, and judging by the way they ran away from Tufts last Friday they may snatch a second win for the season this afternoon against Rhode Island...
...friend of mine overheard a curious snatch of dialogue at the Phillips Brooks House tea the other afternoon. You know those teas--the ones where Radcliffe Freshmen meet Harvard Freshmen. Here's how the conversation went...