Word: snap
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...South, planting was the latest in a quarter-century. Vegetables that should be well up in April were not even planted. The snap-bean crop in Georgia will be 75% below normal. Watermelons will be scarce. A more important delay was in corn and cotton planting...
...President Eliot of Harvard University, higher education swung over almost completely to the free elective system, and primary and secondary education transferred control of the school in large part from the teachers to the pupils. Students of all ages were encouraged to follow their highly efficient noses into snap courses and vocational courses, into courses that came in the afternoon and thus permitted long morning naps, or into courses that came in the morning and left the afternoon free...
...such, the paper draws a circulation of 42,000, gets contributions of $15,000 a year (and some $100,000 in subscriptions), cares not a snap for public reading habits...
...antique firearms and vast oil paintings in outsize gold frames. But there was brisk trading in the Hearst antique paneled rooms (complete with fireplaces and window casements) at $598 to $19,049. And Mr. Hammer had hustled down to Gimbels' groaning floor, and confidently expected eager buyers to snap up a Louis XII carved walnut dresser ($269), a pair of carved 17th-Century Italian stone urns ($598), a suit of 16th-Century Pisan armor ($2,397), Van Dyck's portrait of England's Queen Henrietta Maria...
Here I am, a dishevelled liberal arts student racing up to register before 4 o'clock, with a bottle of booze in my bag, when I bumps into this guy. He's got a flashy blue uniform on, and loads of gold braid, so I pick myself up and snap to attention, who knows, it might be an admiral. Only it's not an admiral, it's Al Roach, the Yard Cop. "They're mobilizing us," he says. "Gave us uniforms for the first time in 308 years. Don't ask me why, maybe it's protective concealment with...