Word: snapping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...launches were taken out of the water a week ago, when a cold snap covered the Charles with a thin sheet of ice, and Coach Stevens is deprived of giving the eights his strict personal supervision. This has not hindered the usual practice sessions, and Coach Stevens stated recently that he will continue rowing as long as weather conditions permit, and as long as the present degree of progress keeps up. He reiterated his former statement that his crews this fall are so far superior to those of last year that there is no basis for comparison...
...choice of any "All" football team must inevitably be based either on hearsay or on a personal snap-judgment, formed after observing a man in one or two games. The CRIMSON'S mythical, all-schedule eleven, as in years past, is made up of Harvard players and their opponents, and the judgment is based solely upon their showing in the Stadium and in the Harvard-Yale game at New Haven...
Demarsico. The pent-up energies of the Fascist deputies were released in noisy bombardments when Fascist Deputy Demarsico arose to defend his chief, Benito. One by one he took the arguments of Signer Soleri and metaphorically broke them over his thighs. At each snap of the hapless Soleri indictments, the cries of the Fascisti grew more and more delirious. Came the time for paying tribute to the martyrs of Fascismo. Demarsico turned to Soleri, shouted: "They died smilingly, our 3,000 martyrs, to construct something permanent. Make no illusions for yourselves; they have indeed created something permanent; and their sacrifice...
...question was argued on both sides for several minutes when someone with a more practical and clearsighted vision of affairs arose and stated: "It doesn't matter anyway because the only reason people take Military Science here is because it is a snap course, and the only thing they care about getting...
Reparations, had a terse word to say to photographers who had conceived it to be their duty to dog his footsteps. As Mr. Gilbert is possessed with powers that might turn an absolute despot green with envy, Paris photographers decided to treat him as royalty and "snap" him with that regularity that attends their attitude toward visiting monarchs...