Word: apte
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lubchansky is a good shooter and a shifty dribbler. Stewart is excellent in pivot-work, and scored most of his goals in that fashion. Probably the steadiest player on the whole team is Cordingley; he is especially apt at feeding the ball to other men under the basket...
...genial assessment there is plenty to be pleased over. His young people are among the most authentic in U. S. writing; his middle class families are hardly less good. He is an apt recorder of U. S. dwellings, furnishings, streets, and qualities of weather. He has a warm skill for drawing-sometimes overdrawing-characters. Much that he writes of is massively representative of U. S. life; he manages to give it charm without falsehood; and he makes it seem virtually his own discovery...
...Politicians are apt to say a great many things," stated an officer in the R.O.T.C. yesterday while refuting the charge of Representative Plumley of Vermont...
...appeal to the individual as a whole rather than to the religious element within the individual. Christ has become less of a far-distant object of veneration and more of an immediate source of sympathy and feeling. The person who looks at Van der Weyden's "Pieta" is apt to feel moved from within rather than drawn from above. A feeling of Gothicism is no longer present...
...limited experience with College work. As a result many men pick their field on hunches instead of experience. They become round pegs in square holes, and even if they discover it before it is too late (say by the beginning of Junior year) the shift to another field is apt to be disruptive and time-wasting...