Word: apte
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...House's last appeal to the College this year, and it offers undergraduates a last chance to do something constructive for a cause that has come to mean a good deal to Boston settlement houses. It isn't glamorous, but it is important. What you'd throw out is apt to do someone a lot of good...
...Prime Minister was in a plum-pudding mood. He joshed Adolf Hitler for a big mistake: "He forgot about the winter. There is a winter, you know, in Russia. For a good many months the temperature is apt to fall very low. There is snow, there is frost and all that. Hitler forgot about this Russian winter. He must have been very loosely educated. We all heard about it at school. But he forgot...
...Dave Belasco, who was responsible for most of the platitude and superficiality that haunts the American theatre to this day, had a very apt pupil in Cecil B. DeMille. The satellite moved to Hollywood to prove that any extravaganza the master had put over on the stage could be made twice as gaudy and twice as profitable on the screen. DeMille succeeded--time and again--and his latest nightmare, mercilessly entitled "Reap the Wild Wind," is now in its second week...
...into certain groups of personality traits such as "strong basic", "weak basic", "Pragmatic", "idealistic", and "Shy". The doctors in the Grant Study believe that, while the "A" men will become the back-cone of society, and good, reliable citizens, the "B" and even the "C" group are more apt to make the headlines, and shape the course of history. Their flaws may be associated with factors which drive them on, not permitting them to be contented with the status...
...this respect his book is a success. In other respects it is mostly Stuart Chase. His apt observations on the past economic mistakes of the U.S. are interlarded with inferences based on such uncritical assumptions...