Word: apte
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...House Small Business Committee insisted on this provision, so that little companies would not have to use up their slim inventories on military orders. But they would probably get less steel for consumer goods anyway; in the scramble for the shrinking supply of non-allocated steel, mills were apt to serve their biggest customers first...
...they were. I never had much good of them. I have more time now for my great-grandchildren." But with it all she keeps sending her pictures to Manhattan galleries: "If they wait long enough I get up a big batch of 20 or so, but they're apt to phone before then and ask what I've got done...
What the show did prove was that a cartoonist's best strips are apt to look much like his worst. Not one panel had the uniqueness that marks a "great" illustrator-a George Cruikshank or Gustave Doré. But in their own ways a handful of the strippers were mighty good...
Jake was an apt, ambitious and obedient young man who never shirked a chore, even to kidnaping a Russian sailor
...counter-denunciation-particularly when it comes from Louisiana's anti-Long newspapers. Reporters who can catch him enjoying the luxury of his daily shave at the King Hotel barbershop can occasionally wheedle some news out of him. But he is adept at dodging, and when tracked down is apt to indulge in nothing more informative than a tirade on the evil inherent in the journalistic mind...