Word: apt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...City of London. Great wealth and an established, honorable position in the business community are the well-nigh indispensable qualifications of any Londoner who would become "My Lord Mayor." The office is really honorary, the incumbency only one year. Anyone who has been Lord Mayor of London is more apt to be a solid, respected man of affairs than a blathering Big Bill or wisecracking Jimmy...
...Washington contretemps what L. P. Jacks in Constructive Citizenship designates as among the deepest characteristics of the modern mind,-i. e. "an overdeveloped faculty for thinking in space, and an underdeveloped or perhaps decayed faculty for thinking in time. With space-thinking alone to guide us we are apt to think our work done when we have devised a social scheme, system, or envisaged-diagram in which men and forces are placed (note the term) in right relationships to one another. Time-thinking immediately asks-how long will these men and forces stay where you have placed them, how long...
...curiosity of the Moscow public and for the consolation of the faithful." - Lenin. "In the cutting off of the lives of men and women no Asiatic conqueror, not Tamerlane, not Jenghiz Khan, can match his fame. . . . His purpose, to save the world: his method, to blow it up. . . . Apt at once to kill or to learn: . . . ruffianism and philanthropy: but a good husband; a gentle guest; happy, his biographers assure us, to wash up the dishes or dandle the baby; as mildly amused to stalk a capercailzie as to butcher an Emperor. . . . Lenin was the Grand Repudiator. He repudiated everything...
...world?despite the fact that polygamy had long since ceased to be a tenet of Mormonism. Humble and meek to a fault, Senator Smoot hung on against this two-year gale of religious disapproval, worked, waited, prayed. At the feet of Aldrich and Penrose and Lodge he became an apt pupil. His ascent to power in the Senate was steady and unspectacular. When North Dakota in 1922 retired Porter James McCumber from the Senate, Senator Smoot slipped his awkward frame into the chairman's seat of the potent Finance Committee?a legislative eminence comparable to the religious height of Mormon...
That good athletes are apt to be good students, that Harvard track men as a group, lead all other Crimson athletes in the class-room, and that football players at Harvard are consistently poor scholars, are conclusions to be deduced from the first intensive study of scholastic standings of Harvard athletes, figures of which were made public this morning by H. W. Clark '23, Assistant Athletic Director at Harvard, who under the Bingham regime has been acting as a link between the H. A. A. and University Hall...