Word: apt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...present age, however, is not apt to recognize the validity of curses. Mr. Edward P. Gaston of Chicago, at any rate, doesn't care what the religious have to say. He intends to dig up the skeleton of Pocahontas, the tender-hearted Indian girl, of whom he claims to be a direct descendant. He has already gone so far as to disinter more than a hundred skeletons, and to measure their skulls in the hope of being able to recognize his Indian ancestress. Of these skulls he has selected three or four for future reference, while Canon E. Lionel Gedge...
They Rove the Whole U. S., Manhattan Excepted To the average New Yorker (if there is one) the theatre is apt to mean a playhouse within walking distance, at least, of Broadway, and the theatrical season a period that begins in the Fall with the appearance of an A. H. Woods bedroom-farce and ends shortly after straw-hat-day with a wave of musical comedies. Of course the a. N. Y. has heard about stock companies-but, if he reads theatrical reviews, he doubtless connects them with the grand old days...
...first, however, "simplified Latin" is to serve merely as an auxiliary, as a stepping stone. Herein its advocates are wise. Today as yesterday the people are too busy to substitute a new language for every-day use. Tomorrow the case is apt to be the same. Not until the economists have taught the people a new relationship between the mark, the pound, the franc, and the dollar, will there be time to begin learning a common denominator for the un, deux, trois, the ein, zwei, drei, and the one, two, and three...
...therefore it is with alarm that a recent critic has noted the fact that H. G. Wells has passed the half-century mark in books published. He considers that, perhaps, Mr. Wells may not be so great as many are apt to consider him. And in this he may be right. But Rudyard Kipling, and many of the most famous living writers have been prolific, and if the present era is not to go down to posterity as barren of great literature, it must achieve fame through the works of these...
...Sophomore Class crew and the University 150-pound eight are apt to find some difficulty this afternoon in handling their respective tasks. The class crew rows Yale at 4.30, while the light-weights are due to take on similar combinations from Yale and Princeton at .5 o'clock...