Word: apt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...complained of President Lowell what has been complained of other educators, "Hang it all, the man's made an educational institution out of the place." As historical comment, the remark is several centuries belated; as witness to a movement which augurs well for American higher education, it is apt...
Firemen, policemen and locomotive engineers are no longer treated in the cinema as heroes. Modern cinema depicts careers of more sophisticated daring, careers of ruffians, lawyers, filles de joie, doctors. Last year reporters were popular because they are considered dissolute and apt at repartee. This year, Broadway colyumists are even more popular for the same reasons. No fewer than three pictures about colyumists appeared last week, with more in prospect...
...panic sends many toward death. Warning signals are: "I am an empty shell," "I am guilty," "I am afraid of going crazy," "There is no hope for me," "It's no use going on." Stubborn personalities, who lack plasticity in their makeup, are susceptible to suicidal ideas. Suicide is apt to reduce the resistance to suicide among survivors or descendants...
...there are one or two elements, which, unless carefully managed, will be apt to disturb, at least temporarily, that beautiful peace which has hitherto blessed the Republican campaign. Mr. Hoover is, of course, assured of his re-nomination, an event which will climax the proceedings on Thursday. But the choice of a running mate is as yet a trifie less certain. The president, to be sure, would retain his present partner, but Mr. Curtis, aside from his advanced age of 73 years, is politically in-acceptable to many party leaders. There has already been much foolish talk about Mr. Coolidge...
Average Occidentals who possess an old piece of almost any kind of Oriental pottery are apt to believe firmly that it is "antique Satsuma." Connoisseurs reject as probably spurious any large piece, since the ancient Satsuma craftsmen whose work is so highly prized confined themselves almost exclusively to small pieces distinguished first by their lustrous glaze, second by the extreme thinness of the hairlike crackle lines and finally by the jewel-like glow and brilliance of the minutely intricate enamel painting. Nearly all "antique Satsuma" sold today is spurious, distinguished first by lustreless colors which result from artificial aging...