Word: apte
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wife Beatriz, .son Miguel, 15, daughter Beatriz, 14; for the present, month-old Jorge Francisco stays in the Mexico City nursery. On Monday Aléman is back at his palace desk by 9, tanned, rested and smiling the famous smile. "Mexico has had its Revolution," he is apt to say then. "It is time to go to work...
Sherburn, Rollins, Bush, and other period specialists are all unbeatable in their fields, though apt to be unimpressive to non-concentrators...
Quite often, in the general excitement of churned paddles and caught crabs, which punctuates the formal racing season, the one fifties are apt to get the feeling that they are Harvard's forgotten black sheep. They find themselves annually with a minimum of racing shells, the minimum being one, and a racing schedule which even an amateur could engrave on the head of a pin. This year, for example, their competitive season will be limited to three races unless they can make a deal with Tabor Academy, a victory over whom can't possibly add much to the prestige...
Where the umpire's decision was close but right, The Lip is apt to make far more noise. "I'm just putting up a smoke screen," he admits. "Maybe the ump will call the next close...
...pictures had the sort of eye-widening freshness which modern artists are apt to try for and miss (as these same kids would, a few years later). Three Men under Williamsburg Bridge, by ten-year-old Walter Kmeta, looked like a Mondrian abstraction-and had more life in it. Yvonne Grogan's black & white Landscape had a sense of balance that a trapeze artist might envy. Hypo and Little Hypo, by Brooklyn's John Pietrowski, 8, for all its blots and blotches, was a study of mother love. Almost all the pictures, selected from 42 New York City...