Word: snatchings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meeting a remarkably improved Northeastern sextet with five men on the sicklist, including Dick Mechem, stellar defenseman, and Dick Harding, speedy forward, the Varsity skaters went into overtime to snatch a 10 to 7 victory at the Boston Garden last night...
HANOVER, N. H., Feb. 3--Although they were able to snatch the lead just before the end of the first half, the Harvard basketball team was no match for the veteran Dartmouth quintet which rallied in the second half to win 53 to 42 here tonight. The victory was Dartmouth's third in four EIL starts, and marked the third time Harvard has been defeated in Ivy League competition this winter...
...rival. In a scant eight months, no shell of needled beer touched lip in Chicago County without previous tribute to 'Nails' Perelman. Implacable, deadly as a puff adder, the hand that triggered a steely automatic could caress a first Folio with equal relish. Able to snatch in fifteen minutes the rest most men required a night for, Perelman spent the balance dictating novels (Jo Bracegirdle's Ordeal, The Splendid Sinners), essays (Winnowings, The Anatomy of Gluttony, Turns with a Stomach), plays (Are You There, Wimperis?, Musclebound, Philippa Steps Out), and scenarios (She Married Her Double, He Married...
...Ethiopia the Packards saw lagging Marshal Badoglio drive like mad to reach Addis Ababa at the head of his army. They also watched Blackshirt politicians arrive by plane to snatch a share in the victory publicity. Count Ciano took a hotel room next to the Packards' and joined them one night for a drink. "He was bubbling over with enthusiasm. 'England is through,' he said, 'or she would have taken a stronger stand against us. . . . We are ready for the future. We have the only experienced army in Europe as a result of our Ethiopian training...
...burning oily rag, he rigged his first crude electrostatic dirt trap. The modern unit is as simple in principle: air entering it travels over fine tungsten wires carrying 12,000 volts which impart a positive charge to passing particles of dust. Then parallel steel plates charged with negative electricity snatch and hold the electrified particles, removing from them 95% of the airborne dirt...