Word: snap
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...walked [into Britain] and helped himself." His vital air power, thinks Michaelis, would simply have been defeated "two months sooner." The German bombers, "with their oldfashioned, manhandled gun mountings, were insufficiently armed to protect themselves." Their escorting Messerschmitts, designed according to German fighter tradition for "a very fast dive, snap shoot, and away," were not built to "stay and fight a delaying action while the bombers got through." The price paid by the Germans in the decisive 84 days of the Battle of Britain was 2,375 aircraft definitely destroyed, and the loss of 7,000 trained pilots...
Shangri-La, known also as studio's C.D. and E. has solved the problems for the present, and keeps the Network technicians busy. Compared with the problem of preventing wave radiation and tangling with the FCC, this difficulty was a snap...
With & Without Bates. Optical orthodoxy is just a finger-snap to many U.S. therapists, whose offices have as many discarded eyeglasses as Lourdes has crutches. They will try to fix almost any eye disorder (except infections, tumors, etc.) by exercise. Some follow the theory of the late Dr. William H. Bates (died 1931) that the six outside eye muscles not only turn the eye but change the shape of the eyeball...
...least two reasons to fear that it would be hard to achieve. The new ships may take two or three weeks longer to build than the average 55 days it now takes to slap together an old-style Liberty ship (though once in production shipyards may snap back to present building time). And it will take much larger and more powerful reciprocating engines to push a Liberty's speed up from the present 10 knots to 15. Besides, even 15 knots is no match for the 21-knot surface speed of some of the newer submarines...
...Treasury collects one year's taxes every year the Treasury cannot lose a year's revenue even if the taxes are collected against this year's instead of last year's income. Meantime the danger is growing that if taxation experts do not soon snap out of their fog several million new taxpayers may reach March 15 under the impression that the lose-a-year's-taxes talk means that they need not pay anything at all this year...