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Like Candid Cameraman Erich Salomon, Photographer Lohse has no secret technique, depends on snapping well-composed pictures, developing and enlarging them himself. His F 1.3 lens is the fastest used, excepting only the cinema's F 1.4. His little Contax special cost him $225 (the lens alone $170), a telephoto attachment to catch long-distance candid shots $80 more. He has a right angle telescope-finder to snap people while they think he is snapping someone else...
...Well, well, well," Frank shoved a towel through the window of his office, "have you found out why people don't get together and why the world still goes around? But snap it up now, the pool closes in five minutes...
Zoology 1 is a course which is all too often passed up in favor of Biology A because of an impression that Biology A is a snap course and that there is a great deal of time-consuming laboratory work in Zoology 1 which can be avoided. This is an impression which has, perhaps, survived from the last generation, for Biology A is no longer the comparative snap that it is reputed to have been in other times, and the laboratory work in Zoology 1 is not really so staggering as is generally thought by the uninformed. The laboratory work...
...language courses, Italian 1 is pleasantly dull. Each day students appear with their reading or composition prepared, and the whole period is devoted to cramming grammar and vocabulary into them. Anyone wishing a reading knowledge in this language will find this course useful. However, those who simply want a "snap" should not include this course on their cards, for it is almost imperative that they attend all classes. During the year excerpts from the works of modern authors are read in addition to the first part of "I Promessi Sposi" by Manzoni, which is without doubt one of the pleasantest...
Semi-weekly section meetings are spent almost entirely in quizzes on the lectures, and most of the work of the course consists of memorizing slides and learning the characteristics of the men and the periods. The course, though hardly a "snap," is not difficult, and offers a pleasant and reasonably thorough review of one of the greatest periods of art and sculpture...