Word: snapped
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...surprised to hear him say, after a little palaver: "I am offering you the vast territory of Portuguese East Africa including the city of Lorenco Marques for ?50,000 sterling." The territory was cheap because it stood between English and Boers, who were having a war. Dean wanted to snap up the offer with the aid of the tycoons of his own race in the U. S. He would install power in the Pedro Gorino, transport U. S. Negroes back to Africa by the boatload. But his race brethren gave him no support...
...antiquated labor laws. Senator Simmons declared that if there was to be a textile strike investigation, let it include Massachusetts as well as the South. Senator Overman, pulling himself heavily to his feet, opposed investigations "costing hundreds of thousands of dollars which do not amount to that" (a snap of the Overman fingers...
Closely connected with the habit of vagabonding is the new kind of course which will probably be part of the reorganized Columbia curriculum. So-called "snap courses" will take the form of lectures at which there will be no academic requirement other than punctiliousness in attending. Half credit only will be given for such courses but no outside work will be necessary...
...speech delivered before the members of the Massachusetts Schoolmasters' Club at its annual meeting in the Hotel Bellevue Saturday afternoon, President Lowell criticised some of the modern trends of education, concentrating his attack upon the "snap" courses that exist at Harvard...
There really isn't anything particularly astonishing in the news that a prominent university president decries snap courses, especially if that man be President Lowell. But the metropolitan newspapers thought the information sufficiently alarming to warrant long stories and topcolumn head lines. There is a significance in his words, however, which though lacking in immediate appeal reflects a fundamental American educational problem. It is the fact that President Lowell was talking to school masters and giving them a little of the cool, hard headed advice which has begun to have its effect in institutions of higher learning...