Word: apt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...university. The final supposedly deft, handling of such stupid trifling with misunderstood ideas is the symposium, so fundamentally truthful, accomplished by multiple lists of questions sent about the country to various and sundry editors of college papers. The list which Liberty has sent included such valuable, succinct, and apt interrogations as these...
...voice has never been cultivated, it just growed," asserted Mr. Morris modestly when queried as to the origin and development of his stentorian tones. "I find that the Stadium is hardest on my voice. If have to make more than six or seven announcements during a game, I'm apt to be a bit hoarse in the evening. The Arena, however, has the worst acoustics. During five years, I've never been able to find a spot from which I can reach the entire audience...
...next eleven weeks, say good-bye to his roommates, and start working Surprisingly few, once they have safely passed the first few trying days, ever quit. They keep on trying until they either make the board or get cut; and if they get cut, they are more apt than not to come out for the next competition...
...forms, to lop off a bit here and another bit there so a column may be compressed into a half column space; a chance to grab with ink-stained fingers the first copy to come off the press and eagerly look for mistakes, mistakes which you are all too apt to find and which you are all too apt to find and which you must open the forms and correct...
Look forward to the important crises of your life. They are nearer than you are apt to imagine. It is a very safe protective rule to live today as if you were going to marry a pure woman within a month. That rule you will find a safe guard for worthy living. It is a good rule to endeavor hour by hour and week after week to learn to work hard. It is not well to take four minutes to do what you can accomplish in three. It is not well to take four years to do what...