Word: snappings
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...ascertained. The results of such procedure must be at best unfair and indecisive, for "with the schools as unequal as they are in the United States", often with widely different standards, the records could hardly be compared; while no satisfactory means has yet been devised for forming snap judgments of a boy's character, far less of comparing characters. And "personal interviews wherever possible" would be as unjust to those applicants who found it possible as to those who found it impossible. However interesting and significant the results of such investigation may be, they cannot be more than supplementary...
...have to decide all too soon. And the temerity he shows at the bridge table, his sense of perspective at the movies, and his forethought in clicking the latch will doubtless all prove of value. But meanwhile as he sits on the fence, (a very comfortable one), passing what snap judgements his fancy may dictate, it is satisfying to realize that in the field below the combat is intense, and that on descending into it, though he may perish from almost any cause, he will not die of boredom...
...rustle no doubt had an element of pleasurable anticipation in it. On the face of it this announcement appeared synonymous with the promise of a "snap exam". But when the result of a previous test, given on the same principle, was made public; grave doubts arose. It seemed as if the new saddle merely rubbed in another place and, possibly, as if the weight were better distributed...
Fourteen fitful fragments of their decline and fall are whisked by in staccato succession. Fourteen is too many times to snap the thread of theatrical illusion. Rather a restless rise of suspense is the result; it sags and roust be picked up again with visible effort at the beginning of each scene...
Rockne places his strategic dependence on a bewildering snap shift and persistent forward passing. He gives his men only one scrimmage a week. He looks like a bulldog, has a bulldog's vocabulary. He has lost only three games in six years...