Word: snapping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Haven the Elis have been going to town, and Georgetown and Penn State are among their more recent victims. Both of these schools have good clubs, and Penn State is right up in that Western league which numbers teams like Pitts among its members. Yale is no man's snap. That Senior triumvirate of Kelley, Beckwith and Miles is really going to town, and when they clash with Bill Gray, Red Lowman and company, another thrilling game is sure to result. It will be the climax of the entire season...
...same time, the bond which once linked him with Cecil Day-Lewis and Stephen Spender has almost been severed, for both have taken the road to overt political action as advocates of the Popular Front in Great Britain. Will the bond finally snap? Or will it be repaired and will the three be joined again as the triumvirate of English poetry searching for "new country" of political and social experiment as well as of literary discipleship to masters like G. M. Hopkins, Yeats, and Eliot...
...than its projectors had expected, attracting some three hundred men. There are inevitably flaws in a new course, but Music 1 has been improving as it went along, and most of those taking it are decidedly pleased with their investment. There are probably many who thought they smelled a snap, and have since been chagrinned by demands that they learn something. But for every snap-hunter who will shun the course next year, there will surely be at least one man attracted to it by its proven merit. Thus the enrollment might be expected to hold...
...applaud the action of the Harvard student council in investigating them. At the same time we should rejoice that at Technology the possibility of the growth of a group of tutoring schools, whose business is lining up "snap" courses and "easy" professors, is absolutely nil, because the majority of students who come to the Institute do so in order to become engineers in certain definite fields, and not primarily to get a "broad education", which, unfortunately, is in so many cases a synonym for "getting a degree in the easiest possible manner." THE TECH
...while financial editors futilely tore their hair. Net result of the Stock Exchange's generous attention to Al Smith's warm-hearted plea was a renewed blast of criticism from the outraged Press, which was additionally irked because the Exchange had refused to admit photographers to snap Al Smith on the rostrum...