Word: snap
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bite. There is no dread of water at any time. "Hydro-phobia" is a misnomer. The dog will drink as long as it can, until constriction of the throat sets in. The second stage of rabies is mania or nervous excitement. The dog may jump in the air, snap at invisible objects. A peculiar, unmistakeable howling begins, not so fast and frequent as the yapping and whining of running fits. The dog is still unlikely to bite persons it knows but will soon begin to "run mad." first at any dog it sees, later in a set course (unlike...
Reason for the excess of child brides over child grooms: the rich old men of Mysore eagerly snap up brides under 10 (even though they may have no dowry) but Mysore boys marry under 10 only when two wealthy families want to conclude an "alliance" before the groom grows up and becomes choosey...
When mad Paul Gorgulov shot France's President Paul Doumer last May, a group of newsphotographers were witnesses. They had their lenses focussed on the President to snap him as he autographed book for War veterans' benefit. The Picture of the Century-the assassination -occurred at that moment. Bearded Louis Piston, who has been photographing celebrities around Paris for 45 years, dropped his flash, swung his camera overhead, clubbed Assassin Gorgulov with it. Photographer Piston got no picture. Last week it became known that he had been elevated to the Legion of Honor. U. S. newsphotographers are notoriously...
Specifically, what Mr. Lowell did in the Harvard Yard was first to unify the curriculum by insisting on a more reasoned use of the elective system. Boys were no longer allowed to roam at their own free will among snap courses; they were required to know something of several subjects and much of some one subject. Next, he abolished the sprawling formlessness of undergraduate social life by gathering all the freshmen in a group of dormitories specially built for them down beside the Charles. That was considered a great innovation. But a greater, and more needed, was to follow...
Author Price takes pains to emphasize that there will always be an abundance of expert work requiring skilled cameramen. But a camera-equipped newshawk is prepared to snap the unexpected. Also he has a distinct advantage of entreé. A hostile subject who has thawed to a reporter's interview may let him snap a picture, although he would freeze again at sight of a photographer's tripod and plate-box. In many cases the cameraman, boldly marked with the badge of his trade, is barred at gates where the newsman, with camera concealed, may saunter...