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...question was argued on both sides for several minutes when someone with a more practical and clearsighted vision of affairs arose and stated: "It doesn't matter anyway because the only reason people take Military Science here is because it is a snap course, and the only thing they care about getting...
Reparations, had a terse word to say to photographers who had conceived it to be their duty to dog his footsteps. As Mr. Gilbert is possessed with powers that might turn an absolute despot green with envy, Paris photographers decided to treat him as royalty and "snap" him with that regularity that attends their attitude toward visiting monarchs...
...clear' language in telegraphic and radio-telegraphic relations, as a practical auxiliary language of international communications side by side with the national languages used, and with this in view calls it to the attention of the organization for communication and transit" (i.e., the International Postal Union). This was no snap judgment, but followed long consideration and debate. The vote was noteworthy, affirmative 14, negative 9. In favor were garia, Chekoslovakia, China, Finnland, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Holland, Norway. New Zealand, and Rumania. A recommendation that all nations of the League put Esperanto into their school systems Albania. Bulgaria and Chekoslovakia have...
...good sport. I admit, to tear to pieces in Shavian wit, a play of a book or a magazine. But I doubt (this is no more than a snap judgment whose accuracy has no bearing on my argument) if even the bombastic Mr. Shaw, after ridiculing a play calls its author an idle dillettante, without first making very sure of his ground...
Friend W. Richardson of Californias "As he talks, especially as he becomes interested in one of his favorite topics?economy, for instance?he looks out at you from under extraordinarily heavy eyebrows, and his eyes snap and his brows twitch. He buries superficial crudities under a river of picturesque language, which flows from a mountain of facts. Suddenly, you do think that he's the Governor, and you understand how it is that in the end he 'gets...