Word: snap
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Business. Chinese goods were more tempting than ever last year, priced as they are in Chinese silver money which is steadily declining; but the Occident, due to Depression, is refusing to snap up China's bargains. The U. S. bought 38½% less in 1930 than in 1929. China bought 28% less from the U. S., and Chinese importers are now unhappy about one of smart Dr. Soong's shrewd moves. The Finance Minister, although silver is legal tender everywhere in China, has put through a decree that goods entering from abroad must pay duty in gold. But for this step...
...time of the fire the kennel not only owned about $100,000 worth of dogs, but it had acquired an enviable reputation in the prize-ring. Its world champion wire-haireds. Brandy Snap, Wycollar Wonder, Wycollar Diamond Merchant and Welwire Wildflower, each valued at about $4,000, were among the top dogs in American Kennel Club lists...
...these, only Brandy Snap was saved from the pyre of many champions last week. Others destroyed included Backside Bard, a wire-haired stud, Hafren Wizard, the last Welsh terrier bred by Homer Gage Jr., and Holmbury Reverie of Welwire, a wire-haired that had won "Best-in-Show" 14 times...
...Think of the movie actors in Hollywood. You think they have a snap until you face those big lights and microphones and cameras. I believe they get more happiness out of one or two years of marriage than an average person does in a life time...
...Morgan went to the rail, smiled, said: "No, not even one minute." Thus he exposed himself to Photographer Wil letts. Then he heard the shutter snap and, now not smiling, fled along the deck...