Word: apt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Aftereffects. A person once hypnotized can usually be hypnotized again, with greater ease as the procedures are repeated. But his will is not weakened, nor is he apt to fall spontaneously into hypnosis. Unless he is predisposed, perhaps in deep subconsciousness, to improper acts, he will not follow the will of an unscrupulous operator...
...Colleges are no worse than the rest of the country as regards wetness," said Pussyfoot, "Colleges are apt to have a reputation for being wet because the shortcomings of a few students get into the papers as typical of all students. If two or three college fellows get drunk and cause a fuss, the story can promptly be found in all the newspapers, but no mention is made of the 10,000 or 20,000 students who ostensibly do not drink. The whole country read the other day of the fraternity in a middle-western university that was found...
...Days later newspapers, were rushed up gangplanks and the comments of the European press began to appear. There was a tendency in all of them, including the Scandinavian and especially the English, to make a martyr of the woman. Something was said concerning the blow to the freedom of apt in her death, a fancy particularly shocking to a locality only beginning to sleep off an overdose of Anglomania...
Advice is the cheapest commodity in Cambridge today. Almost any Freshman, bored and weary after this round of first meetings, can castify to that. Appetite by a flood of sweet wisdom, he is apt to turn slightly sour at the thought of remaining further in the role of advisee. If this is the case it is unfortunate for two reasons. First, because interest in other people's welfare is a forced thing at Harvard and the years of plenty will be followed by a long lean term, advice is obtained only for the asking. Secondly, because the soundest, most reasonable...
...Christian denominations, that a great and growing strata of Christians now believe literally in the imminent fulfillment of Biblical prophecies. Such belief is the "medicine" of religious charlatans, the persuader of profit-taking evangelists, and the consoler of the regular clergy. Where there is social misery, the religious are apt to keep patient, in hopes of the prophetic millenium. (The non-religious are apt to be impatient, in hopes of what they think the economic millenium - socialism, communism...