Word: apt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Apt Phrase...
...That a "high grade moron" makes a better driver than an intelligent man, because intelligent people are apt to think of other things while driving...
Directors, unlike producers, are rarely graduates of the cloak-&-suit trade. They are more apt to be onetime actors, writers, theatre directors or assistant cameramen. The career of the cinema's current No. 1, better story material than some of the screen plays he has worked on, provides a fair example...
...York Herald Tribune Syndicate, Cartoonist Jay Norwood ("Ding") Darling, onetime (1934-36) chief of the Bureau of Biological Survey, produced an apt allegory": "Life in an Iron Lung"-Uncle Sam in an artificial respirator, with Drs. Roosevelt, Ickes, Morgenthau and Nurse Democracy experting and little John Taxpayer manning the pump...
...claim direct descent from Darwin's theory of the Survival of the Fittest. What these monstrous descendants ignore, decided Author West, is that Darwin got his Survival theory from the now obsolete Malthusian theory. More important, he decided, they ignore the fact that Darwin's conclusions were apt to be unconscious alibis for a now equally obsolete stage of capitalism...