Word: apter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...people and finds the rabble. The officers were out to find a demagogue, of whom it could be said that he was a worker. . . . They found their leader in the lowest mass of their subordinates. The spirit of history, in its fantastic mockery, could not have drawn an apter figure...
...tool of mathematics but a tool of war is the is-was. It is an instrument which, given the data on where an enemy ship is, and where it was, can determine where it will be when the next shell hits. An apter name would be is-was-will...