Word: apt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...composed solely of portly financial magnates with heavy watch chains or of spare intellectuals with none, and the geographical distribution of its members serves only to make it the more effective. The common interest is the welfare of the University, in the regulation of which the machinery is apt to run so smoothly that the under-graduate scarcely notices...
Bargains in Floor Coverings" Under the large white elephant was a paragraph: "The Reason: A white elephant is an article that has been a slow seller. . . . They are 'White Elephants' to us but they are ex- traordinary bargains to you." Readers, thinking this a frank, logical and apt explanation of a clever advertisement, patronized the sale...
...blood of horses which have been methodically infected with diphtheria toxin. Such antitoxins constitute one of the few remedies which have a specific effect in treating disease. Without their injection the throat of a diphtheric child (most victims are from two to ten years of age) is apt to close up through the rapid forming of a false membrane across the air passage...
...factors made prudent and possible the act of M. le President: 1) The Bank of France now holds sufficient gold or foreign securities to redeem every centime of the national paper currency, apt to be presented, at its present value of 25 francs to the dollar; 2) So great is the reviving confidence of French peasants in securities payable in francs that they are now buying and stuffing them into stockings at such a rate that urban French capitalists are left with a legitimate surplus of capital for investment abroad. A further prop to French financial stability...
...inclination to worry much about whether I smoke a cigaret or not. ... I am opposed to companionate marriage ... to any thing except permanent monogamy. . . . When a marriage has failed, divorce is the only solution." On top of this she rapidly repeated to her somewhat startled informants an apt parable to illustrate her point that religious bodies should not concern themselves with trifles. Then, tapping her chestnut stick at every step, she moved away...