Word: apt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Twenty-five per cent of the once perfect cigarettes in the ordinary container are apt to end up flattened, bent, broken, and in a generally disreputable condition...
...winning essay, made public this morning for the first time, contains little that is new. Its chief merit is the apt summary of Mr. Delcevare King's views. "The willingness with which obedience responds to enforcement is the acid test of true democracy," says Mr. Bisbee, in the course of his arguments to prove that the lawless should be abhorred as a "Scofflaw...
...take the courses in the history of art. These I have found to have a very interesting and rather exceptional approach to the subject, in that they are more critical of style, and better acquainted with the technical problems involved than are our students at Princeton, who are more apt to take the historical view. Some of the students in my courses here have seemed to me to possess an independence and precision of criticism that approaches mature connoisseurship...
...have managed endowment insurance," Mr. Brown continued, "for classes at Princeton, Tech, Williams, and several western colleges, and in each case the lapses have been exceedingly few. Other kinds of pledges are apt to result in desultory payments, but here there is a contract to pay a small amount a year, which is voluntarily entered into and regularly paid, as experience shows...
...Vanderlip's interesting statement that college journalism is the best extra-curriculum activity, except to point out that in his enthusiasm he has perhaps forgotten some of its drawbacks. For it must of necessity lag behind parchesi in the development of fighting qualities, and its training is apt to make a young man totally unfit to write triolets or sing to anything but a bassoon. Perhaps the only thing an undergraduate does learn from it is not to take himself seriously for he has great opportunity to see how flippantly everyone else takes...