Word: snap
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...TIME, April 14), he delivered merely a smart left-hand rebuke to newspapers which published the fact-without hint of reprisal. But last week, at his instigation, the Civil Aeronautics Board went after the license of the commercial pilot who flew a New York Daily News photographer out to snap the Malaya. Charge: flying too low over city and harbor...
...which someone occasionally slammed the puck into the net. Advised he: "Forget about the puck for a while and watch the way attack and defense form." To the average fan, this was a counsel of perfection. So fast is hockey that players have to make their snap decisions while spurting 30 ft. a second. Fans have all they can do to follow the zigzagging black puck. Nevertheless, as all hockey players know, most goals are the result not of luck or individual brilliance but of teamwork and well-timed, long-rehearsed plays...
...matron innocently laying the net for his father. Lily Cahill, la mere; Jay Fassett, le pere, Eddie Nugent, le beau de L'arte;--these and the remainder of the cast are all quite adequate. But it is Monsieur Thomas, L'enfant terrible par excellence, who provides the freshness and snap "Your Loving Son" so badly needs, if it is not to wilt under the brightlights of Broadway...
...Kant course he is known. As usual, though, the lectures are slow and lack any pep-appeal. The reading is sound, interesting, but definitely difficult. And if you decide to learn all about Kant, and take Phil. 15, it is a good plan to have a few snap courses to go along with it. The course is absolutely grueling, with a paper every week. But you come out knowing Kant, and this is awfully handy on divisionals
...matter he didn't even know that there was an Old China Movement, but the whole idea rather intrigued him. All in all he felt rather ignorant about that great blot on the world's map which was always printed in a bright yellow, and figuring he had better snap up the chance, he decided to stroll over to Emerson D about eight o'clock and see what the whole thing was about. Maybe Chinese girls didn't all wear pig-tails...