Word: snapping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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French and foreign investors scrambled competitively in a buying orgy, last week, when they were finally permitted by white whiskered, confidence inspiring Prime Minister Raymond Poincaré to snap up the 5% bonds of his eagerly awaited Consolidation Loan...
...other convenient excuse for 'going to the theatre'-in fact, it's a PLAY, so let it PLAY; and because you are here, let it PLAY with you. Let it dart off and beckon to you from the distance, let it tiptoe back and snap its fingers under your nose, let it sweep up at you from below or pounce down on you from above, let it creep cautiously behind you and tap you on the back of the neck, let it go all around and over and under you and inside you and through you. Relax...
...edge of a water hole, the Johnsons watched, photographed. Herds of oryx, the double-horned unicorn, wilde-beeste, kongari, eland, impalla, buffalo, zebra, came in turns to drink. Also the rare okapi. They respect and stand aside for the conceited and preening ostrich of the deadly kick. Zebra snap and fight among themselves continuously. Giraffes, "the creatures God forgot," wander about nervously nibbling at the trees too timid even to drink. Defenseless against his fatal leap, they are the favorite food of Simba, the lion...
...different was Talavera Margaret, the wire-haired foxterrier bitch whom Reginald M. Lewis offered as his champion! She was a sturdy study in angles put together with a T-square. Everything indicated that her vitals were made of steel and rubber; her tail, when touched, would snap upward as crisply as a stick of whalebone. Her frisky good-nature was that of a high-pressure debutante; in a day when such ardent and consciously winsome charm is highly prized in drawing rooms, it cannot fail to have its value in the ring of a dog show; Talavera Margaret was judged...
...Columbia "snap courses" will take the form of lectures, at which there will be no academic requirement other than punctiliousness in attendance. Half credit only is given for such a course, but in the Columbia system of rating courses this will make the "snap course" on a par with the laboratory course. A man will be permitted "to include one, or possibly two such courses in his program...