Word: snapping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pick their noses, but to date it is no secret that whenever the Dictator's back is turned there is much reversion to many a nasty habit. The Premier has, however, about 250,000 Chinese soldiers who are actually crack troops, "Chiang's Own," trained to the snap of intelligent duty by German officers. In case of war with Japan these 250,000 expect to have the harrowing duty of driving as many as possible of the 2,000,000 miscellaneous "Chinese soldiers" ahead of them against the Japanese and shooting in the back the tens of thousands...
...make a man a field artillery officer after he has completed a short session at a summer camp. A smattering of hygiene, first aid, signal and fire control, hippology, communications and military history is not thorough enough training to make a man a second lieutenant. Four easy, indeed snap, courses aren't big enough to handle all the necessary material. The result is that the R.O.T.C. graduate comes out at the end of the curriculum with a host of vague, half-correct generalities, which are worse than ignorance...
...concerted effort to snap out of their mid-season slump, eleven Varsity soccer players stalk the Tiger on the Business school Field at 11:30 o'clock this morning, while the Jersey junglers hunt the hunter in an endeavor to avenge their 1935 4-0 taming by the Crimson...
...underneath the circus arua, the college has felt the grip of both national and local politics. In a land of 120,000,000, many millions are bound to vote on impression--snap judgment. Other millions, more mature, vote on a combination of prejudice and reason. It cannot be denied that men, trained to think and observe while in the universities, will later turn out to be the thinking voters of the country. Habits of reason and logic formed in college are not lost in later life, but rather tend to influence the owner to careful and restrained opinion in place...
...cold snap in the air may have been partially responsible, but whatever the cause, the Crimson offensive machinery seemed to click much more efficiently yesterday than it did on Saturday. Evidence of Monday's play-polishing session could be seen in the better timing of plays...