Word: hoisted
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...reason that the teacher knows how to make them appealing. Put the same work in the hands of an incompetent and inexperienced instructor,...... and it will no longer be identified with the name of "snap course." It will immediately become an uninteresting course, and over it the undergraduate will hoist the red flag of danger as a warning to his unsuspecting fellows. --Boston Transcript...
...appropriate topic among the very best people, but William LeBaron, to whom this very idea was born, has spun three acts of good fun and humorous complication. Having resolved to poke fun at eugenics and its converts, he has only to introduce the child in the final act to hoist the humor to its climax. Which he does, and very deftly...