Word: snapping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Soaking wet courts stopped short attempts of the Varsity tennis squad to snap out of a five-match losing streak Saturday, when its encounter with Amherst on the Business School Courts was cancelled...
...band of the roaring 20's grew rapidly through the days of white sailor caps and bow ties, but still lacked the bass drum, the Anderson medleys and the snap drills which gave it nation-wide fame and provoked high-school girls and college co-eds from as far as Texas to write touching letters to Bill Bingham pleading for a chance to be a Harvard drum majorette...
...snap drill formations also came to Cambridge in 1932 when Guy V. Slade '32 took over the drillmaster post. Prior to that time it was customary for the band to form a large "H" in midfield at the half, and perhaps the first letter of the name of the opposing college. This simple maneuver, plus the musical offerings, was all the band had to offer the Saturday fans...
...first overseas press conference, Candidate Stassen was caught in no snap judgments. But at a private session he hammered away at one generalization: Europe's problems are essentially economic; at the heart of them is coal. Said he: "That leads you to the Saar and the Ruhr and Silesia. I'll have to go to Germany and Poland before I know the answer to that...
...pictures appear to be of good quality, certainly up to amateur standards. The process is not affected by ordinary variations of temperature. The exposure need not be longer than usual, and the photographer need not count his 50 seconds carefully. If a picture does not suit him, he can snap another immediately and hope for better results within the minute...