Word: apt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tell us, please, did Professor Wieland actually stoop to plagiarism in the heat of his controversy with Secretary Ickes or did TIME'S Science editor err in identifying an apt quotation as an "original composition...
...truck passed on time, but Mansell got cold feet at the last moment, was cursed by a Socialist who escaped in his place. From then on, Mansell's dissolution was a study in descending discords. Although readers will be impressed by the authenticity of his story, they are apt to finish it with something of the same relief they might feel at getting out of jail themselves...
...Salvador's dictator, General Maximiliano H. Martinez, made haste to recognize the Fascist Government of General Franco in Spain as early as last November. He has cultivated trade with Germany. Gentlemen who cease to find the membership of their club congenial are apt to run behind on dues...
...only immediate result of the promiscuous slaughter in Shanghai was that Japanese diplomatic and consular offices were ordered evacuated from China's capital, Nanking. No one in Tokyo, however, would admit that this presaged a formal declaration of war, a technical gesture now outmoded because it is apt to lead to international complications and to charges that treaties have been broken...
...their enunciation intelligible. Dr. Fitz-Gibbon breaks them of those habits by putting thimbles in their nostrils, guide wires in their mouths. Girls with cleft palates are harder to treat than boys, said he, "because girls are ordinarily protected from the rude mockery of other children. Consequently they are apt to take pride in their funny way of talking...