Word: snap
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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...
...wind blew him clear, and he counted two before pulling the rip cord, so that the parachute might be clear of entanglement. Macready did not know whether he was upside down or not when he left the ship, or whither he was heading. But he heard the parachute snap open and knew well that he would land somewhere. Edward A. Wuichet of the Dayton Chamber of Commerce, walking below in the summer darkness was startled to hear a voice from the sky say: "Hello below ? Hey, down there?" The most peculiar conversation passed in the dark till the aviator landed...
...simple, solemn sensation: General Erich von Ludendorff held court, his admirers standing stiffly at attention before him. He drank a glass of beer, shook hands formally with each Monarchy man who was presented to him. Grand Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz tripped timorously into the Reichstag. Photographers tried to "snap" him as he went, but in his well-known genial manner, he dispersed them with a few deft fencing movements of his cane. Then, after everyone had trooped into the Reichstag Chamber, Herr Bock, aged 78, oldest Reichstag member, rang a bell to signify that the second Reichstag of the German...