Word: aproposal
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Apropos recent cases in which game wardens have been shot by hunters caught out of season, Chief Redington said, "In some of the most important wildfowl concentration areas in the country we have repeatedly noticed . . . groups of individuals recruited directly from the lowest criminal element of our larger cities."
India Mishandled? Liberals and Conservatives moved upon the Government in both the House of Commons and the House of Lords apropos a proclamation made at New Delhi by the Viceroy of India, Baron Irwin. His actual words were merely to repeat to Indians the pledge (which every British Government has...
Economics. Apart from the "causes" of the break, many an economic point was made apropos the break. Three widely discussed points were:
Apropos of same, may I not state the fact, of no particular significance but probably interesting to many, that Francis Scott Key, who, while a prisoner of war, penned those immortal lines, was, in religion, a Roman Catholic?
Owen McMahon Johnson, novelist (The Tennessee Shad, The Varmint, Stover at Yale, Children of Divorce), announced last week (apropos his latest novel, Sacrifice): "Second marriages are happier than first marriages. The new form of divorce-I call it 'amicable divorce'-is on a friendlier basis and much easier...