Word: snap
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...onion crop (June 8-15) was 50% above average. Heavy crops of beets and snap beans were melted down, July...
This afternoon the team will go against the Boston Hellenics, with Sophomore Irv Rudman as Coach Stahl's mound choice. Ned Fitzgibbons will return to his centerfield post, in the hope that he will snap out of the slump which has affected his game so noticeably of late. Also scheduled are games with Fort Banks next Wednesday, and tentative dates with the Camp Devens team and the Lincoln Mohawks on Friday and Saturday. Either Joe Phelan or Moe Berg will hurl against the Fort Banks team...
Eugene Talmadge, Georgia's bang-browed cracker Governor, cracked off again last week. The three-week-old news reached him that 30,000 hale, hearty and draftable Georgians had been rejected by the Army because they were illiterate. Quick as a gallus snap, "furriner"-hating Gene up & said: New York is "the most illiterate state in the Union." He knew it, he said, because he'd been there, and had heard waiters who could hardly talk English. Without bothering to point to the census facts (in 1940 Georgia had 30.1% with four years or less of schooling...
...worth-while educational institution has ever been subjected to the intensity of sneering criticism that self-righteous circles bestow upon the Snap Course. However the intellectual snobs who glorify work for the sake of work have failed to observe the indispensable role which the Snap plays in American arts and sciences; were it not for this role, it would hardly have withstood the test of time so well...
...first place, many of the nation's leading anthropologists (full professors from sea to shining sea) were first interested in the field because Anthy 1 happened to be a snap at their respective alma maters. And then there are the four prominent industrialists who, as worldly Harvard under-grads, enrolled in a notorious Cultural History of the Moslem Empire in Spain with sincere intentions of passing with the gentlemanly grade of C minus. But the enthusiasm which the professor held for this fascinating field inspired them to such feats of scholarship that they not only got A's but agree...