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Word: snagging (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bevy of A's--and nothing but A's--that is the scholastic honor that 112 undergraduates managed to snag for themselves last term. Figures just released by Registrar Sargent Kennedy '28 show that this puts 2.1 percent of the College in group I scholastically...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 112 Scored Four A's in Fall Term | 5/7/1948 | See Source »

...friends, most men in the class seem quite content that the ballot represents an equitable and capable cross-section of the class. It seems to me that the "popular criticism" which you mentioned in the headline is not in keeping with the facts, and the reference to the "snag in the election machinery" is completely unfounded inasmuch as the slate has been accepted and the election is to be held as originally scheduled. It seems that the Crimson was guilty of inaccurate and consequently misleading reporting...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Backs '48 Nominations | 12/12/1947 | See Source »

Nominations for the 1948 Permanent Class Committee hit a momentary snag yesterday when members of the class called for a Student Council investigation of the automatic nomination of a number of former members of the Temporary Class Committee...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Popular Criticism Snags Nominating Machinery of '48 Class Committee | 12/10/1947 | See Source »

...Nagai director of Boeki Cho, and A. B. Kram, chief of SCAP's foreign trade economic section, and handsomely housed, shabby little Japanese manufacturers eagerly crowded around businessmen, jotted down gripes about style and quality, hustled back to their factories to make what improvements they could. Another snag was the shortage of raw materials. Those who tried to supply them got no help from SCAP. Example: Gordon Behr, of Los Angeles' Yaras & Co., offered to ship enough coal from the U.S. to assure production of some sheet steel his company wanted to order. But SCAP, constrained...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN TRADE: Reopened Door | 9/15/1947 | See Source »

...alcoholic-which might account for his fatal liver disorder.) Nonetheless, A.E.C. was determined to get to the bottom of the story for the sake of its workers' morale and its touchy recruitment problem. But A.E.C.'s chief medical adviser, dispatched to Fort Worth, ran into a major snag: on advice of counsel Earle's family refused to permit further examination of his body. At week's end, the Fort Worth radioactivity scare was still unresolved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Radioactivity Scare | 9/1/1947 | See Source »

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