Word: snap
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...composite story of today's unemployed, of Jim Jobless of New York City. Doubtless it closely resembles the averages to be drawn from data gathered in other cities. Last week Jim Jobless in most U. S. cities shivered in the year's first real cold snap as he joined the breadseeking or jobseeking lines. But relief work everywhere was getting under way and Jim Jobless could read the following in the news...
...that Military and Naval Science are "snap" courses indulged in by only the dull and lazy. That is not true although I admit that, they are not as difficult or exacting as most of the courses given at Harvard. This is made necessary by the fact that many men can take them only as a fifth or extra course because of the requirement of concentration and distribution. Furthermore, it is evident that the Government wants for its, Reserves not scholars of the upper rank lists, but men of character and ability in other fields...
With the cold snap came a new hustle and bustle among public men in many a city throughout the land to do something about Unemployment. During the summer, when men out of work were not perishing of hunger and cold, this major problem was largely allowed to coast along on the theory that autumn would bring economic improvements. When no business upturn appeared, widespread preparations were started to avert another winter of long breadlines...
Wrong again. His majority was 38,189. This is not your first dig at Huey. I am of the opinion you would like to class him with Heflin. Snap out of it, he is the direct antithesis of the Alabama Senator...
...Gray entered the president's office, Mr. Springer left. The door was closed. The stenographers and clerks did not hear the lock snap shut. But before Mr. Springer reached the lift the sound of angry voices came from the room. Then, in startling succession, came a fusillade of five shots. The outer office froze into silent, motionless attention. Before it was broken there was a round of five more shots, the sound of glass falling...