Word: snap
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bulk of knowledge thus inflicted upon those of the second category above is infinitely less valuable to them than a corresponding expenditure of time and labor among the high spots of other fields. I do not think that such a course of education would be a superficial one. "Snap" courses are virtually extinct. And there is no correlation between superficiality per so and a broad knowledge of many things (as opposed to a specialized knowledge...
...Fundamentalists and Modernists alike. The die-hard Fundamentalist is quite wrong, I think, in insisting upon a word-for-word and letter-for-letter correctness of the King James version. And the Modernist-the extremist at the other end-he's just as wrong in leaping to snap judgments and wild conclusions on mere textual criticism...
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Shrewd, the Government had counted on Bore Car to disperse the Opposition. Slyly, Government Deputies kept their seats, passed the Constitutional amendment by a sudden snap vote, sent it to the Senate before the napping Opposition woke...
Like jackals, Canton troops raced north to snap up abandoned towns before Nanking did. A batch of rebel politicians led by Eugene Chen moped off on a Hong-kong-bound steamer...