Word: apte
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Argentine Way. The U.S. is apt to have long-continued trouble with Argentina. This prospect was further indicated last week by another Argentinian, Ramón Lavalle, a liberal Argentine journalist and ex-diplomat (who has anglicized his name to rhyme with "canal"). Lavalle wrote in the March issue of the Atlantic Monthly...
...from the very beginning, those who did like TIME were apt to like it very much. One of these was the discerning President of Cornell, Dr. Livingston Farrand, who spent each Friday evening with TIME and "was never disappointed." Colonel E. M. House found that TIME "filled a long-felt need." Newton D. Baker "read every issue." Senator Borah found it "excellent-brief, brilliant, up-to-the-hour...
Whoever succeeds McNary in the minority leadership, Republican tactics henceforth will be different. No one on the scene can rival Charley's cloakroom finesse; his likeliest successors are men more apt to give open battle on the floor. Three men are in line. One is Acting Leader Wallace White of Maine, who will get the job if the law of inertia applies. Another is Michigan's Arthur Vandenberg, first in line by seniority and prestige, who may refuse it in order to keep his individual freedom. Third choice, favored by the Party's Young Turks, is Ohio...
Writing in the current Infantry Journal, Chief Warrant Officer E. J. Kahn Jr. makes it all clear by explaining that the main basis for soldier humor is self-pity. Kahn, who also writes for the unpitying New Yorker, declares :"0ne man is apt to feel fine when he has reason to believe another feels worse." Griping sends soldiers into fits of morose laughter...
...program pays out about $250 a week, mostly to servicemen on leave and other citizens who can use the money. Men are much more apt to shoot the $64 works than women. Men are also more apt to get Phil Baker in the kind of trouble he encountered recently when a sailor, asked to give the navy definition of "noise," gave not "celery," which was right, but "Boston beans." Baker gave the sailor $64 and told him to get back to his ship...