Word: apt
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Woodward, the other guard, is too listless, apt to be carried back by a lively opponent and plays altogether too high. He is not strong at following the ball...
Fuller at tackle was strong and vigorous and made good gains when given the the ball, but he, too, tackles high, and is a little apt to over-run his man. He will make a good tackle...
Wadsworth is very uncertain, tackles hard and well at times and occasionally plays very well. He is apt to leave his end uncovered and is difficult to coach...
...cultus of the dead is thus the great bond of the family, and also that of the social order from emperor to peasant. Readers of the Chinese moralists are apt to think that there is nothing in the religion but ceremony. This ceremony, however, is the adequate expression and regulation of the feeling of the people...
...knows everything, he knows nothing,-that after twenty years of criticism one is still a mere weigher and gauger:-skilled only to judge what he may chance to have been in the habit of inspecting at his own little provincial customhouse. And as one gets older he is apt to allow more for personal idiosyncrasy, and to have less certainly that the truth he has reached is not a one-sided one, and that there are not fifty others equally important, and (perhaps) equally unsatisfactory. Every bait is not for every fish. We begin by admitting the old Doctor...