Word: snappings
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...proposed plan would limit tutorial to less than 37 per cent of the College. By it undergraduates would be divided into those who get a maximum of expert instruction and the rest who slide through Harvard with a maximum of snap courses. That Harvard gives more honors degrees than any other university of its rank in the country is due directly to the uniformly high standard which the tutorial system has done much to maintain. Such a division of the students not only destroys the value of a degree; it is unwise and artificial. In the Class...
...common knowledge that the young of most species attempt nursing after the mother is through with them. Mother dogs snap at their puppies; mother cats send their insistent kittens sprawling. When the young pigs of the sow in question "seized the moment of her immobility to nurse," it is probable that they were recently weaned, and, as I indicated, were taking unfair advantage of the situation...
...prevalent opinion that Anthropology is a snap field seems to be well founded, unless you are going out for honors...
Some of us have remarked within the past couple of years how his clarinet playing seemed to have deteriorated, that it his lacked the verve and snap and inventiveness of yore. not only in his commercial products of popular airs, but in his too infrequent jazz records, his solos have been adversely affected by his full-dress symphony performances, for the cold, pure classical clarinet tone Mozart wanted sounds cold and pure when transferred to jazz, where tone can express so much...
...beat of a healthy heart is lūbb-dūpp: a hollow boom as the ventricles contract to pump blood, followed by the soft snap of the closing of valves to the aorta and lungs. Weak, doubled, out-of-step or extra sounds mean trouble...