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...whiz," the "shark," the man who can, with little visible effort, rip and rend the more indigestible portions of the curriculum into tender shreds; the man who singles out tough courses for the sheer delight of picking high marks out of them; the man, the exceptional man, who would snatch at an honors course if only his university offered...
...Anderson borrowed the characteristics of Mr. Tully's dusty nomads and one of his incidents to make a narrative. It is the story of a child of bitter misfortune, a girl seduced by her stepfather and driven by circumstances into a disorderly house. When she had earned a snatch of leisure and money for the trip, she paid a visit to the family, leaving the house unceremoniously, and its owner shattered with lead pistol-slugs...
...second time this year, the University baseball team went into the last half of the ninth inning enjoying a one-run lead Saturday against Dartmouth, only to have the home team push two runs across the plate and snatch the decision. Against Columbia on April 25, a one-run advantage in the final stanza proved insufficient, and on Saturday a double by Bjorkman in the ninth inning with two on bases enabled the Green to win once again...
...heed that plebian Prince. You've read your C. Darwin and know what's meant by the survival of the fittest. I'm the fittest. Snatch a kiss right here in the eyes of all and that'll settle the survival...
...country teems with college business schools, extension business schools, correspondence schools, all waiting to snatch up the young man and turn him into a rythmic accounting machine, and then feed him as so much raw material into the steel factories, the aluminum factories, the 'widget factories', and the stool chairs of commercial life. Fond Fathers instruct sons to eat and be merry in their gay college years for there is serious business ahead...