Word: apt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...they'll yell at you. 'You don't know how to treat children; you just let them cry.' And do you know what they're liable to do if a child in the coop keeps on crying? . . . Why, some one is just as apt as not to walk up to the cage and throw a bucket of water on it. ... And do you know what will happen if things are too quiet in the cage? Why, someone will scare up a lost child. A mother will send her child for a glass of water...
...Most of us are apt to think," said he. "that the battle has been won when it is' possible for the broadcasters to eliminate extraneous noise and present our music against a background of silence. Admittedly, that is a very great step forward since the early days of radio, but it is very far from being...
...male are ivory-white, known as Whites, or spotted, known as Byocks; the drabbish wing feathers from his mate are known as Feminas and Greys. Tail feathers are Boos. A prime bird will yield about 20 oz. of feathers at each clipping. When not being clipped he is apt to roam about, find sport (not supposed escape from danger) in burrowing his head into sand and pebbles. Generations and generations of ostriches have passed on the information that pebbles are essential to their digestion. When approached or frightened during such relaxation he will make off at great speed. Most...
...type. He asked the boss of the ad alley about it. The boss, a squat and blue-jowled individual, spat on the floor, observed "Jeest, why don't yuh rubber da rag?'' Dr. Durston, on business somewhere in the background, overheard the remark, thought it apt. Next day every machine, desk, locker and press in the Standard office carried the words "Rubber da Rag" on neat white cards...
...DONT WANT TO DO ME ANY INJUSTICE IN REPORTING WHAT HAPPENS IN CONNECTION WITH MY CONTROVERSY WITH THE KANSAS CITY STAR AND I WANT TO THANK YOU FOR THE FAIR TREATMENT I HAVE RECEIVED IN EVERY WAY EXCEPT THAT YOUR FOOTNOTE IN THE JULY TWENTY-SEVEN EDITION IS APT TO GIVE THE READER A WRONG INTERPRETATION OF THE FACTS STOP HE WOULD READ IT AS MEANING THAT THE STATEMENTS OF OUR COMPANIES ARE NOT AUDITED STOP I THINK YOU MEANT TO SAY THAT OUR STATEMENTS ARE NOT AUDITED BY OUTSIDE AUDITORS AT THE TIME THEY ARE CURRENTLY ISSUED STOP...