Word: apt
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Travelers have observed that the Persian is apt to be tolerably pious, quite up to Occidental average in sexual morality, easygoing, indo lent, not particularly patriotic and almost joyfully unencumbered by anything remotely approaching an Occidental's concept of financial integrity. An official or a rich man has immemorially been expected to accept bribes, embezzle, cheat. The peasantry have usually chosen for their principal crop that hardy weed, the opium plant, a species of vegetation which requires absolutely no cultivation and fairly luxuriates upon the ideal soil of Persia. Not surprising, then, was the discovery of the Millspaugh Mission that...
...read it, and if the truth must be told, with amusement, finding it typically American, quaintly ungrammatical and sophomoric. Further it did not seem to be well disposed or given to amiable qualities. The conspicuous examples of the latter are too long to rewrite. However a few apt specimens of false fine writing occur in "famed," "one," "onetime" and "able." There are others as atrociously bad. Its public must be one that admires redundant simplicity...
...There is at present, moreover, another evil which may be corrected by the new system." The theses and reports which are of such value in advanced courses are rather apt to fall due at times when there are examinations in the offing, or when the regular reading is just getting under way. As a result the student may well find that he has a report, regular reading for courses, tutorial work, and an examination all imminent in the near future. Thus he is unable to give as much time and thought to his report as he should...
That the blase dinner guests who tell this story are being more apt than risqué, was indicated by a report last week from Secretary William M. Jardine's watchful Department of Agriculture. U. S. horses, said the report, and U. S. mules, are decreasing rapidly in numbers. Their population is 17% less than in 1920. The next five years will show a 30% or 40% reduction of their present scanty number. Breeding, warned the Department, must be stimulated to meet what is already an acute shortage on farms where machinery is impracticable...
During his eight years in Turkey, Mark Bristol has repeatedly "advised" the Young Turks, with a smile or a turtle-snap of his jaw, as occasion warranted. They took his advice in the matter of easing up on the Armenians-now no longer apt to be massacred like rats by Turks. They yielded when Admiral Bristol was grimly defending U. S. interests at the- drafting of the Treaty of Lausanne (TIME Aug. 6, 1923 et ante).* They wondered at his prodigious activities in directing U. S. relief among Baron Wrangel's shattered "White Russians" in Constantinople, and at Smyrna...