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Meanwhile the University Maintenance Crews prepared 500 gallons of what was described as "corn" to keep the staff and the vice-President of the Corporation "up to snuff." Snuff, it was observed, can only be purchased of a certain Magyar Refugee '06, in Passamaquoddy, Maine...
...have had only two team practices behind it since exam period began. Coach Lloyd Harper doesn't expect any noticeable depreciation in the quality of his boys play, however, because he held informal practice sessions during the two and a half week layoff to keep them reasonably up to snuff...
...British, you understand, or the weather, but the markets. Peter, a wealthy merchant, was tired of traipsing all over town doing the family shopping; he wanted a public exchange center, an open market where he could get in out of the rain and cross off his whole list, from snuff to hops, at one time...
Stability & Peace. Though Russia had attempted to snuff out these gains by clamping down on Berlin, "the Soviet planners," said Clay, "failed to recognize our strength in the air . . . The airlift to Berlin is not a makeshift operation. It is a well organized, efficient and precisely timed operation which can provide the minimum essentials for the people of Berlin indefinitely . . . Our airmen . . . have not wavered in bad weather; nor in the face of contemptible threats...
...almost none of the enjoyment, of a huge Thanksgiving dinner. It is operetta at its most oppressive. The audience would not have too bad a time if it simply (like Joan of Arc) heard voices; the Sigmund Romberg songs are conventionally melodious and the singing is quite up to snuff. But otherwise the audience has a great deal to endure...