Word: snap
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...made by the men he started against Bates last Saturday and has been working the same combination in practice scrimmages this week. The team has been lining up with Hulman and Diller at the wing positions, into and Storrs at tackle, Trippe and Cruikshank at guard, Landis in the snap-back position, Murphy at quarterback, and Captain Aldrich, Mallory and Jordan in the other backfield berths...
...never attended a class on Saturday. That, however, is a victory over the "Courses of Instruction" that is achieved so seldom that we do not advise an attempt to duplicate it. But there are other less notable victories that are quite possible. Aside from those who pursue the 'snap course",--that elusive animal which is likely to change its form unexpectedly--there are some who will remember that they may avoid walking up stairs in Sever by a little foresight in choosing courses; that they may insure against the annoying Saturday sections by the exercise of discretion. No doubt there...
...method of signing for electives at registration time vexes all of us. We dash into a class because "the 'prof' is a friend," or because "it fits our program" or because it "is a snap course." Like the mail order catalogue, the time schedule seldom embellishes a course with details as to its real value. Frequently an ambiguous title deceives us and we are in a course that is entirely inappropriate. As in commercial buying the red tape is too entangling and "shopping" is the only recourse. University of Washington Daily
...plea of confession and avoidance must be entered at the beginning, to the effect that outside the paper industry we have nothing to contribute beyond a few snap-shots of the surface of German life at this time. The time was short and well-filled, and out general impressions were of necessity wholly superficial...
...specific values newspaper photography is sure to develop speed if thought and action, acquaintance with interesting situations and important men, and extreme keenness of tact and of mind. When you have to photograph a man who doesn't want to be photographed you have to make a snap judgment and than act and act quickly. In your work all the interesting situations and all the important people of the community. As for keenness of mind and cleverness. It is one of the first requisites of a successful photographer, For example we once had a man here who took pictures...