Word: apt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...case of the Tennessee Electric Power and Light Co. The idea of forcing a transaction such as they did and allowing not one cent for the stockholders is one of the greatest pieces of economic injustice that even the New Deal, whose new dealers are very apt to deal from the bottom of the deck, has done. It only goes to show the great self-satisfaction and self-esteem of Mr. Lilienthal to send you the telegram which he did as though the mere fact that the details of robbery were made public justified the robbery...
...black cowboy boots. He was never a cowboy. He comes from Coalgate in Coal County, is the son of a missionary to the Indians and is famed for his peculiar behavior on the bench. When his raven-like eye spots a prominent onlooker in his court room, he is apt to halt proceedings, introduce the visitor, make him take a bow. He holds that every judge, before he takes office, should have at least five years experience as a poker player, to get an insight into human nature. Last autumn he wrote a letter to a newspaper declaring that...
Northern children with incompleted spines usually die young. In the climatically calm South they are apt to grow up, a condition which explains the high rate of spina bifida in balmy South Carolina...
...When the bell rings, open your mouth, stop up your ears, shut your eyes and you'd better stand up because sparks are not so apt to land in your lap," said the mild-mannered, middle-aged man who was running the show. "Better wear a hat, too, if you have...
Diet & Acidosis. Acidosis, or the loss of alkaline substances from the body, is not a disease but a serious condition which aggravates pregnancy, infantile diarrhea, infectious diseases, diabetes, kidney and heart troubles. People who diet are apt to develop it, especially women. The women's risk, said Professor Harry James Deuel of the University of Southern California, "is associated with the inability of women to oxidize fat during starvation as completely as males. For this reason, an accumulation of incompletely oxidized end products, which are organic acids, occurs in the female...