Word: snapping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...again to the feel of driving cleats in the ground, and backs crouched, unfolded and pivoted, while coaches watched foot and shoulders. Some passing was done, while ends and halfbacks waited their turn to run out to respective rights and lefts for long passes, and diagonally across for short snap deliveries...
...funniest scenes in the current Broadway hit, Room Service, is that in which three starving actors leap wolfishly upon a well-laden table, snap at everything in sight, including their own fingers. Thirty years ago U. S. audiences roared with delight at a similar scene, in which two hungry Negroes, yearning for a mythical farm where ham trees and biscuit bushes grow, come upon a picnic basket; one of them seizes a banana, peels it, stutteringly devours the skin. That was the sure-fire climax of The Ham Tree, one of the most famous musical shows that ever toured...
...before, I myself had been swimming, I'd like very much to know the preferred procedure when the third-time-that-charms comes along. I have heard all about how you subdue such tough customers as lions, alligators, rattlesnakes and such-you pull their jaws apart till they snap, or holding them by the tail, you crack them like a whip and their head flies off. But what to do when suddenly confronted by a shark, or barracuda ? Should one set up a tremendous splashing and threshing about, and thus attempt to frighten him off, or should...
Swallowed as a tablet or inhaled as a gas, Benzedrine at first shrinks mucous membranes, raises blood pressure, quickens the heart, sharpens the wits. These effects are powerful enough to snap a schizophrenic out of his murky mentality (TIME, Sept. 14). Small doses of the drug maintain his intelligence. Overdoses, such as uninformed college students seem to be using, bring on dangerous after effects...
...Snap" courses have always existed, changed, and then other snaps have taken their places. Under the present regime at Harvard, it is surprising to find such a thing as a "snap" field. Apart from that, the present arrangement is unjust to students, both those who wander mistakenly into the field of Geography, and those capable individuals who never get a chance...