Word: apt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Children conceived during a blustery February and gestated during a stormy spring are more apt to have cleft palates and harelips than children created while weather is more temperate. This is a fact which Professor William Ferdinand Petersen of the University of Illinois discovered while compiling a treatise on The Patient & the Weather...
Harping on the importance of personal appearance, Mrs. MacGibbon writes: "You no longer hear an employer say of his secretary, 'She doesn't look like much but how she can type!' He is more apt to say, 'I've got an A-1 secretary now and is she a looker!' " But: businessmen "wish their offices to have a dignified, not a sexy, atmosphere...
Though organized fox-hunting is 50 years old in the U. S., the sport is still on the defensive. Nonhunting, non-Anglophile sportsmen are apt to see something silly in the expensive preoccupations of the "manure set," while plain citizens are apathetic if not hostile. The hunting set itself, impregnably self-sufficient as it tries to appear, is uncomfortably aware that they order these things better in England. This popular U. S. attitude toward fox-hunting is reflected in the jolly apologias emitted from time to time by U. S. foxy grandpas. Latest view-halloo was sounded by Harry Twyford...
...this is dangerous, because course examinations vary greatly according to the propensities of the professor and the character of the subject. But certain defects that some of them possess are fairly evident. Being chiefly restricted to lecture material, they often require very little reading. The subject matter is apt to be so well tabulated by the lecturer that the student in preparing for the examination becomes unaccustomed to organizing and thinking about his material for himself. Furthermore, courses sometimes engender the habit of regarding an artificially delimited portion of a field to the exclusion of related subjects. All these factors...
...Have a look! I'll go on making pictures for at least two more years." In China such a job as Butterfly Wu's is not soft. If she is playing a distraught mother grieving when her child is killed, the Chinese director is apt to decide that a real mother in such circumstances would weep for 23 minutes. Hence Miss Wu must and does weep for 23 minutes in the Chinese film, which is probably at least 20 reels long...