Word: apt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sufficed to indicate a partially exposed fossil. After a little practice the men spotted digging sites with field glasses. Having discovered a fossil, the diggers used whisk brooms and needles to disengage the item from its matrix. Dr. Andrews was usually chased away from a find. Impetuous, he was apt to use a pickaxe...
...Author is a good deal older (58) than her public is apt to think her. Born in Portage, Wis., she left home, like other small-town girls, to go to college (University of Wisconsin), to get a job (newspaper work) in the big city (Milwaukee, then Manhattan). In Manhattan, as a "fragile, flowerlike, feminine" reporter on the late great World, she filled every tough assignment given her, found time for a daily letter to her mother, for her own writing on the side. After three years of it she went back to Portage in 1904, settled down to write. When...
...designs of Gilda's furniture may best be classed with your critic's apt designation as, "rolling...
...scandal. To the whole rugged, wealthy British upper middle class (not to mention the peerage & landed gentry) it was a national calamity. They had known that the Oxford Union, that famed debating society which is the traditional school for British statesmen, has been increasingly attended by studious greasy grinds, apt to be Laborites. But what indeed was the Empire coming to when the Union sank so low last week as to adopt by a vote of 275-to-153 this proposition...
...conferences, such as they are, the discussion is upon the man's special field, and is apt to be largely on the subject which he has selected for his distinction thesis. I believe most of the men get benefit from these conferences, but they are a selected group and would be likely to get from anyone all that he is able to yield...