Word: snatch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although Cornell's aggregation of track and field men is given a slight point advantage over Dartmouth for first place, there is not only a strong chance that the Indians may snatch the top honors, but also that either Harvard or Yale, whom the dopesters have relegated to a scramble for third, may sneak away with runner-up glory...
What Captain Brown might have heard, reported in good faith, and perhaps expanded on later, was a snatch of a CBS broadcast that night by Newscaster Edwin C. Hill, a lurid, present-tense yarn of the long-past sinking of the Republic in 1909 - first major sea disaster in which radio was used as a distress signal: "Fog is all about . . . impenetrable murk . . . hysterical shriek . . . crash and grinding . . . frightening darkness . . . shouts and screams . . . women and children aboard ... C Q D ... C Q D*. ..." As Captain Brown recalled whatever he did hear, "they seemed terribly excited. . . . It made me sick...
...Daddy: "I am Father. I help Danny. . . ." Reader I tells tots that it is fun to go to school, shows them the right and wrong ways to play. Reader II, Let's Take Turns, gets into more complicated matters, such as whether it was right for Bob to snatch a book from Betty...
Last week, Seltsam issued to the public his first de Reszke discs: a part of the Forge Song from Wagner's Siegfried, a snatch of the aria O Paradiso from Meyerbeer's L'Africaine. Both records sounded as if Tenor de Reszke were singing under water during a hurricane. Nevertheless, Seltsam's fellow antiquarians strained their ears reverently at every foggy syllable...