Word: apte
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Certain Houses are good for certain kinds of people. A Dunster man's meat is apt to be a Lowell resident's poison. In making the transfer from Yard to House, freshmen should consult their own inclinations and interests, and choose, if possible a House where these characteristics seem prominent...
This season eager Yale undergraduates and townspeople have crammed Payne Whitney gym to watch slender, 6 ft. 3 Tony Lavelli shoot baskets. He was as far from the old "Pudge" Heffelfinger mold in Yale athletes as was tiny footballer Albie Booth. For one thing, he was apt to be shy in a crowd; for another, what he really wanted to be was a musician. A competent piano and accordion player already, he hopes "to pick up some day in the musical comedy composing field where Cole Porter and Irving Berlin leave off." But with his long fingers Tony Lavelli could...
...followed a different route from that of Hay, Root, or Hughes, who had a firm belief in a set of established philosophical values. Acheson belongs to a more experimental school. Like his friends, Justices Brandeis and Frankfurter, and their own precursor, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, he is more apt to believe that ethical and legal principles can not be so rigidly fixed; their touchstone is whether an action appears to be good in the light of the needs of the day. It was and is a philosophy generally regarded as "civilized," and Dean Acheson is in all respects a highly...
...prewar spy ring had worked against the Axis, not the U.S.? MacArthur's headquarters thought that it was a timely reminder of a fact which most Americans learned in the investigations of Communist spy rings in the U.S. and Canada. The most effective spies the U.S.S.R. has are apt not to be Russians, but Communists of other nationalities who are perfectly willing to work for headquarters in Moscow, without thought for the welfare of their own countries...
Unlikely Cheroot. Unlike Picasso's, Braque's best paintings are apt to be recent works. A standout (not in the show) was The Carafe (1942), a dinnertime still life in black, brown, blue and beige. Braque had ingeniously illuminated the canvas with three different kinds of light -the silvery gleam of a spoon, the watery sparkle of a carafe, and the glint of fish scales-all successfully simulated by bare patches of canvas used in contrast to the surrounding depths of color...