Word: apt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Deputy Franklin-Bouillon rushed in waving a telegram and shouting, "Belgium has had courage! Admirable little Belgium has declared she cannot pay!", M. Herriot was ready with an apt retort, even though Belgium's act eventually swayed many Deputies of France...
...Christian civilization will prevent them. But might not lopsided creatures of this type fit in well with the Communist doctrines of Russia?" Aggressively conservative, Winston Churchill's desk-poundings will please many a Fundamentalist in politics. But the next moment with absent-minded effrontery he is apt to give away a point to the enemy: "Democratic governments drift along the line of least resistance, taking short views, paying their way with sops and doles and smoothing their way with pleasant-sounding platitudes. Never was there less continuity or design in their affairs, and yet towards them are coming swiftly...
...protection. Detection of rabies in its early stages is difficult. The rabid dog is infectious a week before any symptoms appear. As its illness (always fatal to the dog) comes on, it will first seem melancholy, extra affectionate, sexually excited, or uneasy and inclined to seek solitude. It is apt to gather up straw, thread, bits of wood and trash. It will lick cold objects and other animals, but not be disposed to bite. There is no dread of water at any time. "Hydro-phobia" is a misnomer. The dog will drink as long as it can, until constriction...
...just patriotic enough to smile. On the other hand, the documents of the United States Government developed out of Anthropology; a fact which be thought might have pleased that Secretary of State who did so much to swell them, William Jennings Bryan. One of the most apt arrangements to his mind, however, was Religion, Bibles, and Explosives together...
Most authorities declare that more women than men suffer from migraine. But Dr. William Allan of Charlotte, N. C. offers figures to show that migraine afflicts both sexes equally. He says that more women complain about their sick headaches because the disturbance is apt to be more severe in them. The headaches disappear while a woman bears a child, during the nursing period and after menopause...