Word: snap
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...beginning course because they want to learn to be officers, and the Department of Military Science, sensing that it no longer has to attract students with its horses, is waking up. The officer-instructors are handling out "unsatisfactory" grades right and left, and their exams are no longer the snap quizzes of the good old days. Only three cuts per year are allowed before the unwary slugabed finds himself outside the Army with the draft hot on his neck. Written work outside of class is demanded for the first time, and the neophyte warriors are actually learning the theory...
...effort to make the snap which the Freshmen have exhibited at scattered intervals a more consistent feature of the '44 attack, Chief Boston has shifted George Blanchard from the line to the backfield. Blanchard, who carries 195 pounds on his five foot ten frame, was previously a guard, but a recurring shoulder injury has kept him out of action for most of the season. It is hoped that his appearance at the blocking back post will make the Crimson running attack a little more lethal...
Next, the leg is set in a "Griswold machine"-a 20th-century model of the rack. The pins are connected on both sides to a kind of caliper and the leg is gently stretched until the two broken ends snap into place. While a surgeon "reduces" the fracture, his assistant watches the bone through a fluoroscope to make sure the ends are fitted. The leg stays in the machine...
...into cloth. Alone the cloth has little strength. But several sheets heat-molded in a 1,000-ton press produce a material superior to steel in everything but tensile strength. It is 50% lighter, 50% cheaper, ten times stronger. Bent like a jackknife in a huge press, plastic panels snap back into shape when the pressure is released. Continual assaults with heavy axes, hammers have no visible effect on the shiny, rustless panels. Their color is not paint but inbred in the plastic. Fenders of this Buck Rogers material, though not quite unbreakable, withdraw from minor collisions with lamp posts...
...tweet from secure positions on the bench, will this afternoon held down berths of the opening lineup. Pfister has been recalled from the ranks of the blocking backs to plug a gap at right guard. Ayres gets the nod over Lone Star Diets mostly because of his more accurate snap-backs. Diets has shown himself a lion on defense in heavy duty games thus far when Ayres was out with an injury.Pete Elsor's smashing play has won him a regular starting berth at left tackle in place of mountainous Vern Miller...