Word: apt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...probably easier for a man to demonstrate his worth in sales work than any where else, because he actually brings in business to his company, and to the man who brings in business and makes money, the salary increases are apt to come with more frequency than to the man whose ability as a profit maker is not so obvious...
...fall's Crimson team, was not enthusiastic over the change. "It is unquestionably good," he remarked, "in that it will make the game a great deal fairer. Our team last season can recall occasions when an unfortunate fumble changed the whole score. The best team in the world is apt to lose through some unlucky break. The new rule will lessen such occurrences. But," he added, "it does so by sacrificing excitement. It seems to me that the present tendency calls for an excessive removal of chance. Breaks have a real place in a football game; they certainly give...
...poetry to the object of his love. After he has cut a certain number of classes and handed in a certain number of love poems for mathematics papers, his connection with the university will be severed. Thus for the missionaries from New Haven, missionary work on the Labrador is apt to prove alma matricide...
...ladies of the Fifth Avenue (Manhattan) Baptist Church when the erect, square-shouldered law clerk strode down the aisle to take his seat. "There," they whispered to one another, "is the Good Young Man of our church." And later, when they walked home with their children, they were apt to say: "Winfield, I wish you wouldn't keep your hands in your pockets. He never does."Or, again:"Ulysses, don't hang your head. Stand up straight, as he does...
...newspapers this became: "Too much sunlight is conducive to cancer of the skin. Thus agricultural workers, sailors and others exposed to the sun are apparently more apt to suffer from the disease than the rest of mankind. The radiation lamps, the review says, cause the same reaction and have elements of danger...