Word: apt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Business Prophecy. There are two fundamental ways of looking at the future of business: 1) it is all a matter of chance; 2) what has happened is apt to recur. Economist Irving Fisher of Yale, an advocate of prophecy in business, contends that prosperity and depression repeat with mathematical regularity. Against this contention argued Mathematician Edwin Bidwell Wilson of Harvard. "An economist can find periods in anything if he uses the right system. But those periods would be but figments of the imagination." To prove his point Professor Wilson showed that an array of business statistics which displayed periodicity also...
...popped their heads into the Assistant Secretary's office just before he left for his Senatorial inquisition, found Dr. Tugwell having his white doeskin shoes cleaned and whitened. His necktie, shirt and socks always conform to a careful color scheme, and in passing a mirror he is apt, perhaps unconsciously, to give himself a glance. At 42 he is a handsome figure of a man. Besides being a connoisseur of dress, he is also an amateur of wines. Otherwise he leads the life of a professor, dwells in a small house in Glover Park with his wife...
Lady Frances Wentworth revealed the calm realism of John Singleton Copley (1737-1815), an apt painter of the gentlefolk whose silks and satins rustled primly through the streets of pre-Revolutionary Boston. His Brass Crosby was technically more assured, exemplified his work as an official painter of important London figures. Not hanging was his famed portrait of the Knatchbull family which took seven years to finish because Mr. Knatchbull caused repeated repaintings by remarrying, begetting more and more children. American-born Benjamin West (1738-1820) who lived in London and was one of his generation's most famed painters...
...League. The next problem in Koki Hirota's busy week was what to do about Dr. Ludwik Rajchman. So glaring are the things that the League of Nations ills to do that the world is apt to forget the practical international charity which the League attempts. Year ago it was the League-inspired loan to Austria that did much to ward off Hitlerism and keep Engelbert Dollfuss in the saddle. Since 1930 the League has been doing what it could for impoverished China. Eight months ago it commissioned its Dr. Ludwik Rajchman, Polish expert on China...
...Hearst executives and empoyes were obliged to think of him as an old man. Since he rarely budged from his Enchanted Hill in California never showed himself outside his home state the notion grew that he was all but doddering. Whenever his name arose in Hearst offices, talk was apt to turn to his imminent collapse and the burning question is who would succeed to control of his publishing domain...