Word: snappings
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Away with Codfish. Lowell-who preferred being called "Mr." rather than "President"-began at once to remodel Eliot's Harvard. Eliot had built up a distinguished faculty but had let the undergraduate college slump. Under Eliot's famous system of free electives, many Harvard undergraduates chose snap courses, thought any grade higher than C ungentlemanly. Snorted Lowell: "The B.S. degree is a certificate not of a man's mastery of science but of his ignorance of Latin...
...most doubtful item in judging returnability was the practical application of draft laws. Just how fast men will be taken can not be predetermined, and various boards snap men up at different rates. In tabulating men subject to draft, officials divided them by age groups, and then estimated the date of call for each group...
...flame and smoke and the ground where I was lying half a mile away jumped with each explosion. There were seven Junkers 88s with two Messerschmitts as escort. When they had gone the ridge seemed bare, but soon you could see men crawling on it and hear the snap of Bren guns replying to the German fire. . . . There was another bombing attack and two more strafes before dark...
...been made; but he handed out 276 bases on balls the same season. In his first four years with the Giants he pitched 224 games, won 132 of them, moved the team from last to second place in the National League. He ruined his arm with a snap throw in 1897, quit ball playing three years later...
...another cigarette and put on "Body and Soul." Three days after the game, and he still had a lot of vivid impressions. Players and spectators pounding anyone within reach after the field goal. More of the same after Richards' punt return. Then the picture got blue. Something seemed to snap when the referee called that play back, but Cleo's interception put the players back on their feet. And then there was the horrible nightmare of number 14 going diagonally across the field with nobody in Crimson around. The failure of that last-minute drive was just too much...