Word: apt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hard. He has found that the restrictions of the seniority rule have tended to throw him in a pool where age in service rather than special merit or fitness is the yard stick for promotion. He has found himself restricted by the barriers of labor unions. He has been apt to become discouraged, and finally to embrace one of the offers of other business concerns which have a greater appreciation of the value of broad educational training...
...organization. Glee Clubs, it is argued, should confine themselves to a collegiate, or rather so-called collegiate type of entertainment, rather than deviate into more classical channels. People who, unfamiliar with the repertoire of the Harvard Glee Club, look forward to an evening of reminiscent joviality, are apt to be disappointed; if so, they are in no mood to appreciate the beauty of the program offered...
...found. Such a result is to be hoped for. If Germany could be made to see that her present tactics are futile, she might finally settle down to a steadier level of action, and become a reductive agent in the markets of the world. But further procrastination is apt to be disastrous to the Allie's and Germany as well...
...loans and credit, troops and munitions; what is more, she needs the backing of Europe's influence. From present accounts, none of these things will be forthcoming. Constantine may be a popular here, and Greece may enjoy the luxury of his regal presence in Athens; but that luxury is apt to be an expensive...
...college has clearly seen that the Freshman sorely needs friendly advice at the beginning of the year. Accordingly it has adopted the systems of faculty and senior advisers. The effect of these systems, however, can only be superficial. A student in apt to discount the advice of an instructor because he is a representative of the faculty. Moreover, it is a very difficult thing for a faculty adviser to help a student about whom he has known nothing until a study card is presented for his signature...