Word: snapping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wang constitutes almost a double bend of the Chinese Government Whalebone. But can China lose? In the past Japan has often tried to loan her way to Chinese hegemony, pouring into China over $3,000,000,000 with all sorts of strings attached, strings which subsequent Chinese Governments blandly snap. In Manhattan what could be called the reaction of informed U. S. tycoons accustomed to doing business with China was neatly capsuled by the Herald Tribune thus: "If she [China] is left to her own devices she can be trusted to sign no bargain which she cannot subsequently denounce...
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Hence Dame Rumor becomes chief pilot. She should certainly be ousted as generally untrustworthy. Too often a student hears a course laconically described with one or two adjectives, and when actually enrolled in the course, finds that he differs heartily from the gratuitous snap judgment. When the tutors can give no aid, the best-informed source of advice to be found is in the department itself, where the chairman and senior tutor act in the capacity of "contact men." However, if all students who should consult them for one reason or another, did so, the chairmen and senior tutors would...
Last week word reached the U. S. of Publisher Agnelli's latest exploit. He equipped every Stampa reporter, at home and abroad, with a small, high-powered candid camera. Henceforth Stampa newshawks will be expected to snap everything newsworthy they see, indoors or out, without fussing with flashlights...
Weak Rival: We note under this caption the picture of the leader of our so-called "Weak Rival." . . . You show [Hobart's] portrait to the best advantage; you do not even snap his picture with his hand raised aloft, taken at a time when he was trying to silence enthusiastic friends and admirers. You do not picture him in such a pose, because you think a casual observer will think he were a Fascist or a Nazi. Why do you not come right out in the open and say Belgrano is Fascist? You do not dare, because you know...