Word: snapping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dropped into a box for Willie Winn. When at week's end he unlocked his box, there were 342 silver dollars for Willie. Since he is a broadcaster of uncertain habits and sudden impulses, the WAAF engineer keeps an alert finger near the control switch, ready to snap him off the air if he should start heading for the stable...
...image of the Goddess Ubasti from the 6th Century B.C. Comparable to great similar bronzes in the Louvre, the Metropolitan Museum, the Cleveland Museum and the Bliss Collection in Washington, D. C., it possesses, as the museum eloquently pointed out, "in a static pose, the strength and snap of a taut bow string...
Crimson Due to Snap Back Today...
Apparently let down after their three league game weekend, the Mitchellmen made eight errors in the field against the Jumbos Monday to lose 13-4. Today the Crimson should snap back into their, stride, that has brought the circuit lead and the best Varsity of several years...
Reporting sorry figures to its stock-lolders, many a company took occasion to snap at the Government. Tartest comment was provided by Chairman Edward Joel Cornish of National Lead Co. When le blamed the New Deal for a 30% slump in National Lead business, a stockholder piped up to ask: "If you disagree with President Roosevelt, have you anything to offer except to go back to where we were?" Retorted Mr. Cornish: "When I get lost that is what I try to do-go back to where I started from...