Word: snags
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...selective breeding strikes a snag when golden-haired Suzanna, chosen to mate with one of the elders who heavily depends on "signs" from on high, prefers instead the young inventor, who has no need of heavenly go signals...
...circulation snag hit by PM was Manhattan's delivery system. Morning papers are delivered by local dealers (cigar stores, confectioners), afternoon papers are usually sold on newsstands, rarely delivered. PM took subscriptions from thousands of curious New Yorkers, who then found that their local dealers were not anxious to deliver an afternoon paper. Meantime, PM's circulation was almost equally divided among city sales (mostly newsstand), suburban sales (newsstand and delivery) and copies by mail to out-of-town subscribers...
Immoderate and humorless as Marxian sectarian journalists, as human beings the Partisan Review editors are an eager, uneven, engaging crew. Happiest when criticizing critics, capitalizing on capitalists and declaring war on "Imperialist War," they are almost as happy when they can snag a literary lion. Of these they have snagged a pride, from Apostle Trotsky himself to such international camelo-pards as Andre Gide and Gertrude Stein. Latest catch is Poet T. S. Eliot's new, beautiful, 200-line poem for the current May-June issue...
...were talking to made the statement that his seminar wasn't progressing too well just then, that they were stuck on something. He looked over at another member of the group and said "Jack here is gumming us up." Jack admitted that he'd struck a dialectical snag, and looked a little sheepish...
...wool elective systematizers to combat attempts to restore a content to liberal education, namely that some people are constitutionally unable to study sciences, seems to be refuted by the experience of St. John's. The students were surprised that we thought some might have been caught on this snag of their all-required curriculum, and blamed "dead" text-books and teaching methods...