Word: apte
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...School is generally about as unpopular and unpleasant as handing in English A themes. But the bolstered-up requirements of the accelerated program are going to make those extra two courses that can be picked up during July and August mighty important to a lot of people. They're apt to mean the difference between getting a degree and entering the Army a couple of courses short of the University's graduation requisites...
...germ is called Rickettsia prowazeki, after Typhus Researchers Howard Taylor Ricketts and Stanislaus Prowazek. In feeding, the infected louse bows its head, pricks the skin with sharp stylets for bloodsucking, and meanwhile often excretes Rickettsiae on to the skin. When a victim scratches his itching louse bite, he is apt to infect himself by rubbing Rickettsiae into the scratch...
...housework or taking care of brothers and sisters; some had been deprived of normal affection from their own parents. Any combination of these influences, on top of the natural maternal bent, was likely to produce overconcentration on a child. If the mother was over-stern, her child was apt to be a namby-pamby; if she was overindulgent, she reared a tyrant-child...
...France have been some 20,000 Poles who fought first in the Polish Army, then in the French, and now have their own units in the British Army. Learning English, the Poles have taught their hosts enough Polish so that in pubs near the camps even natives are as apt to say "Naz drowie" as "Here's how." And on the streets a Pole's "Good morning" is as likely as not to be answered by "Dzién dobry," with an "r" like a watchman's rattle...
...French worker would never be content with half an hour for lunch and he never would go into an automat for ready-made food. No, our worker likes to eat well and with discrimination. He goes home for lunch, if he lives near the factory, and . . . he is apt to get a better-prepared and more varied meal...