Word: snap
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...eyes, a perverse wind dashed the Akron's tail against the ground, disabling her for weeks. Nevertheless, the Committee gave the ship a clean bill of health, but not without minority utterances by Representatives McClintic and Patrick J. Boland who said: "When I see girders that snap off like pretzels. I know something is wrong." Last week on motion of Congressman McClintic, no longer a committeeman. the Akron quiz was taken away from Naval Affairs and given to a joint Senate-&-House committee "that won't whitewash the Navy...
...Evening Post's Correspondent Albion Ross was punched on the back of the neck for attempting to enter a Jewish store (other U. S. correspondents were not molested). In Hamburg a Jew shot a Nazi officer and was himself killed in jail. In Berlin photographers were ready to snap pictures of people attempting to enter Jewish stores. In Annaberg pickets were ready with stickers to place on the foreheads of shoppers: "We Traitors Bought from Jews." They were little used. Nazi bands played lustily in the public squares to keep the populace amused and at nightfall the great boycott...
...still calls the department "Psychology and Philosophy" and Seniors must still take one question from the Philosophy divisionals. In spite of this, however, the psychologists rightly look on themselves as a separate entity; a progressive and complete, though small, department. The department has its own elementary courses, its own "snap" courses, its own tutors and its own divisionals...
...plumpness with snappy, well-tailored suits. Since he was convicted last May of official malfeasance in the purchase of city supplies (TIME, May 23). the Mayor has made less than half a dozen appearances before the City Council, fewer public speeches. In Butler, Pa. one day last week he snapped at his oldtime friends, the Press photographers, when they crowded around him. They wanted to snap him because he had just been sentenced to six months in jail, a $5,000 fine and removal from office...
Before Count Charles could summon all the Deputies who usually support him, the Chamber passed a snap vote of no confidence 82 to 72. Necessarily Count Charles announced the resignation of his Cabinet, started for the Royal Palace...