Word: snap
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...they used to, when I was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury." All this was vouchsafed to Philip Schuyler, of Editor and Publisher, who said of Mr. Vanderlip: "The onetime President of the National City Bank of New York has turned crusader and his zeal is boundless. His eyes snap and his jaw is set. He is angry and his talk is earnest, although not hyster- ical" It was also revealed that Mr. Vanderlip was on intimate terms with Senator Wheeler, whose committee he is assisting. Among the leading Washington correspondents 'described as "high-grade messengers," are: John W. Owens...
...introductory, or general courses in the outside fields--quite additional to the necessary modern language courses and English A. Probably two of these introductory courses, such as History 1 or Mathematics C, are taken in the Freshman year; and whatever else may be said of them, they are not "snap courses". An "elementary" course does not mean an easy course; it is often one of the hardest, and unfortunately often one of the most uninteresting. One is taught the rudiments without learning enough really to appreciate or to enjoy the subject matter...
...that belief in the supernatural may lead to muddled thinking. Although the supernatural in religion is known through the religious experience the supernatural in revelations is an historical problem. That callege training which Mr. Stanton mentions might be employed to better advantage in estimating historical evidence than in passing snap judgments on Biblical problems without any knowledge of the Bible. W. T. HOWE...
...possible. The good student may have momentarily neglected the short period covered in his attention to another similar period, or to the whole matter of the course. The poor student may have found local difficulties which would have disappeared later. The judgment of an "hour exam" is but a "snap" judgment...
With the purpose of unifying and rendering more complete the offerings for 1924-25 in the English Department, several marked changes are included in the new provisional elective pamphlet for next year. These revisions include the abolition of "snap", composition courses and the alteration of the instruction in English literature so that there will be a course to cover every period from Anglo-Saxon times up to the present...