Word: apt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plantation owner of the traditional grand style." His father was from Pennsylvania. Cliff spent about half of his time in the south with his uncle, thus he was both by inheritance and environment about half and half. It has been my observation also that northern men are more apt to look askance at the dusky beauties of the South. Also, according to Freud, a young man from the North would not have fallen, thus, from grace. I might add, irrelevantly, that I am a Northerner by birth and tradition. I am originally from Bismarck, N. Dak. My great-grandfather...
Most medal tournaments are won in the third round, for the field is apt to be fairly even up to that time and a decisively brilliant score then adds mightily to the strain on other competitors in the final round. Jones especially has depended on his third rounds. His third-round average in U. S. Opens is 73?a half-stroke less than his second-round average, a stroke less than his first-round average, three strokes less than his fourth-round average. That third morning at Interlachen was a little cooler. Jones started by sinking a ten-foot putt...
Legislative Hobby: refining the law. He is vigilant in advising the Senate when legislative precedents are apt to be established. His bills have been of legal nature, or else pertaining to the oil scandal. One of the latter allowed Oilman Henry M. Blackmer, of Denver, to be subpenaed abroad and fined...
Times have changed. When gruff, penetrating Herr Wolff barked, "You are the Fascist regime, we a democracy!", Il Duce bridled, made an answer of utmost significance : "I am a democrat [pause] that is, an authoritarian democrat."* As though he found his new-coined phrase especially apt, Il Duce reintroduced it during the argument again and again. "We are creating moral order, not police order," he added earnestly. "We are not reactionaries: quite the contrary." A little plaintively, knowing well that he will always be considered ruthless, the Dictator spoke at last of his penal islands (notorious as "Devil...
GREAT enterprise in the world of science applied for the benefit of the general public is too apt to become public property without the recognition of those individuals who made the achievement possible. Science has become popularized, but the tireless scientist receives meagre memorial. The journalistic Paul de Kruif has rescued many of these names from oblivion in his "Microbe Hunters" and later his "Hunger Fighter", published in 1928. Dr. Harvey W. Wiley has told his own story, and has presented a picture, human and authoritative, which ranges from the log cabins of pioneer Indiana, to Harvard College...