Word: snappings
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...accusative as subject of the infinitive in indirect discourse." The boy of today, on the other hand, "For languages elects Spanish or French, for philosophy and economics a combination course known as 'social science', for mathematics some sort of applied geometry, for oratory the dramatic club. With such a snap who couldn't make...
...traces with mock profundity the awful and mysterious path of solids and liquids through the system. As a running fire to this weighty discourse anecdotes of the great at table pop like champagne corks, snap like crunched marrow bones. There is rare eating and rich reading here...
...inserts such a scene as that between a couple of truculent schoolboys, but not often, and these rare seconds are lost in the general mawkishness. Moreover, the thin material of the plot is stretched almost to the breaking-point. And indeed, who are we to say it did not snap altogether somewhere along in the second act." Certainly something was wrong there...
...Horween convinced his players that they had a chance to win. Ordinarily a team as badly rocked as Harvard was would require two or three games to gain confidence before it rode to glory at the end of the season. But at the first play Harvard showed the snap of a team that knows what it can do. This Horween must be a wonder. If he can do so much for Harvard, think what he could do for William G. McAdoo! --New York World, October...
...former mayors, 600 were employed by the Ministry of Justice, 2,200 were dismissed from the department presided over by Premier Poincare himself-the Ministry of Finance. To threats from these disgruntled onetime officials that they would appeal for reinstatement to the Chamber, M. Poincare replied with a snap of his jaws: "Apply then! As soon as the Chamber reassembles the Government will put the question of confidence on its acts of economy...