Word: snappings
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More airplanes came to Princeton and droned above the elms. Dean Gauss said nothing. Students paid $3 apiece for five-minute rides in commercial craft, just to fly over Nassau Hall and snap their fingers. Dean Gauss said nothing. Everyone felt sure that Dean Gauss would enunciate a new prohibition, but Dean Gauss said nothing-until last week, when he unexpectedly proclaimed an interpretation of his anti-motor vehicle edict which the laziest of campus sag-spines had to admit partook of Solomonic cunning. "We have so many machines on the ground," Dean Gauss began blandly, "that...
...Atlantic City, N. J., the Ambassador Hotel announced a new convenience for guests?free loan of cameras with which to snap-shoot vacation scenes and the glories of Atlantic City...
...show that in 1916, 12.3 per million population died of cirrhosis of the liver, while in 1921 only 7.4 per million were victims of that disease. He was given a few minutes in religion courses, and allowed a portion of the chapel time. He then demanded that a snap-vote be taken. Sixty two voted in favor of strict enforcement, 39 for modification, 20 for repeal. He entered Upsala in the prohibition column of his notebook and went on to a nearby college...
...News Service, had sponsored one of the most "unethical", newspaper stories in his long career. He, of course, had not written it himself, but it was perfectly in accord with his tradition, and in direct conflict with newspaper ethics. "Get a lead! Go as far as you dare! Pep! Snap!" Well-paid Hearstlings and editors are promptly ousted if they...
...rabies are the same in animals or humans, making proper allowance for the beast's normal way of expressing itself. The first usual symptom in a dog is its abnormal affection. It feels something is wrong and tries to tell its master. It is restless, easily irritated, will snap at objects. Later its throat begins to become paralyzed.* The pain of swallowing even water is terrific. So it avoids water, giving reason for the name hydrophobia. It bites at things or other animals, sometimes so tenaciously that its jaws must be pried open. Saliva drools from its jaws...