Word: snap
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Zoology 1 is a course which is all too often passed up in favor of Biology A because of an impression that Biology A is a snap course and that there is a great deal of time-consuming laboratory work in Zoology 1 which can be avoided. This is an impression which has, perhaps, survived from the last generation, for Biology A is no longer the comparative snap that it is reputed to have been in other times, and the laboratory work in Zoology 1 is not really so staggering as is generally thought by the uninformed. The laboratory work...
...language courses, Italian 1 is pleasantly dull. Each day students appear with their reading or composition prepared, and the whole period is devoted to cramming grammar and vocabulary into them. Anyone wishing a reading knowledge in this language will find this course useful. However, those who simply want a "snap" should not include this course on their cards, for it is almost imperative that they attend all classes. During the year excerpts from the works of modern authors are read in addition to the first part of "I Promessi Sposi" by Manzoni, which is without doubt one of the pleasantest...
...Before casting off for her last flight, the Akron was scheduled for extensive repairs, involving one of the girders which the enlisted men saw snap as she crashed. Nevertheless "she was as sound as when she first arrived in Lakehurst...
Semi-weekly section meetings are spent almost entirely in quizzes on the lectures, and most of the work of the course consists of memorizing slides and learning the characteristics of the men and the periods. The course, though hardly a "snap," is not difficult, and offers a pleasant and reasonably thorough review of one of the greatest periods of art and sculpture...
...blown no wind through the control car.) No second shock was felt. Hence the important deduction that the Akron had been broken not by wind but by water. However, Metalsmith Erwin still insisted that the ship was still flying tail in air when he saw the girders snap. When the tail hit a few moments later, he said it sounded as if someone had "sat on a penny box of matches...