Word: snap
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...charge of the appointment of Senior advisors has determined on several innovations. The most important of these is the plan, which will be tried next year, of having regular office hours for the advisors. Then, at least, the Freshman, thirsting perhaps for nothing more than information as to "snap" courses, will have a refuge to which he can go and there pour out his troubles. Although in effect this plan shifts to the Freshman the burden and responsibility of making the first contact with his advisor, it is a distinct forward step in the difficult problem of helping the first...
...something unknown, but something that says in effect: "We hereby serve notice, by our enjoyment of this show, and what snap we've put into it, and the careful smoothness that we've tried to polish it with, and a number of other things that senile graduates wouldn't understand that this is just the first year's evidence that some modestly important things can be expected of the rejuvenated Pudding after it hits its stride...
Historically, of course, Britain has been the leading creditor nation of the world, and the Bank of England rate has been accustomed to leading rather than following. For the time being, however, this former situation has been exactly reversed; and when the Wall Street money merchants snap the whip, Lombard Street must jump. Britons have the same unquestioning faith in the Bank of England as in the monarchial form of government; and to financiers of the older school this episode of London's setting her money rates by those of the U. S. centre is indeed humiliating. Many indignant...
...value of such a compilation is determined primarily by three things; completeness, logical arrangement, and accuracy. In the first two respects the 1924-25 Register would seem to surpass all previous editions; accuracy can only be established by use and extended study of the material. Of course a snap and popular judgement is usually based on whether or not one's own name is correctly speeled, but to all appearances the new edition is as accurate as any such listing could be and a good deal more so than most...
...began! The leaping thin flames, blue and yellow like wild pansies, turned the laughing players into a shifting, shrieking, witch's circle ... a whirl of darting hands and skirls of laughter and pain. . . . Where's the dictionary? "Flapdragon-Snapdragon.-A sport in which raisins or grapes are snapped from burning brandy and eaten. See example I " "The wantonness of the thing was to see each other look like a demon as we burnt ourselves and snatched at the fruit. This fantastical mirth was called Snap-dragon.' "STEELE, Toiler...