Word: snappings
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...luncheon Brown coach Alva Kelley praised the work of blocking back Gil O'Neil and of the Harvard line. "The offensive line showed rare snap reactions in single wing blocking," he said. "Their blocking on the short side was remarkable--it kept our weak side end and linebackers flabbergasted...
Richard William Kazmaier is one of the nation's best football players. He is also a refreshing reminder, in the somewhat fetid atmosphere that has gathered around the pseudo-amateurs of U.S. sports, that winning football is not the monopoly of huge hired hands taking snap courses at football foundries. In a day when most back-fields average 180 lbs., he is a slender 5 ft. 11 in., 171 lbs. He is a senior at a small university (3,000) that does not buy its football teams. At Princeton he has a scholarship, just as 42% of his teammates...
...best in the short sketches. Samples: in a supermarket, Jimmy trundled off with a beautiful girl sitting in the rolling market basket, told the audience: "I'd have taken two, but they'd get stale"; to an errant Kellogg salesman, he ordered: "Turn in your snap, popple and crack...
...Theodore Honey, an obscure research engineer in the Royal Aircraft Establishment, Stewart plugs patiently away at an experiment to prove his calculations that the tail assembly of the Reindeer, a new transatlantic plane, will snap off from metal fatigue after 1,400 flying hours. In a trance of pure science, he is unperturbed by the fact that Reindeers already in passenger service will reach the estimated breaking point long before his laboratory proof can be ready...
...Shortly after we heard the Memorial Hall clock strike 11:30," the student continued, "I heard a twig snap somewhere near us. I jokingly asked my date if she had heard anything, but she just laughed...