Word: aptly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...what disease are Jews most apt to be free...
...average student council is apt to be like the House of Lords in doing nothing in particular and doing it very well. It generally further resembles the House of Lords in being chosen from the upper strata of society, and for service of one sort or another to the commonwealth. For the peer this service may consist in amassing enough money to buy a Derby winner and supply campaign funds; the student council member may have run the Barwell ends ragged, or may have shut out Yates...
...difficulty in transmitting high-voltage current arises from the fact that the natural leakage of the conducting line causes a loss of power at a certain distance from the source of the current, deadening the line if correctives are not applied. In addition, long distance high voltage lines are apt to behave erratically. To steady the operation of the line, automatic voltage regulators are added to it at regular intervals. Engineer Baum's invention consisted, broadly, in replacing all but a minimum of auxiliary regulating equipment, with synchronous condensers every 100 miles. In these condensers, the current is given...
...Concord earthquake was of a sort very apt to occur in New England when the ground melts in early spring, said Professor Mather, and is caused by small faults developing along frost cracks. The recent Japanese quake, however, was brought about by a slipping of land masses along a fundamental fault which lies near the shore. The serious Japanese earthquake of 1923 was also caused by this same fault...
FINDING THE WORTH WHILE IN THE ORIENT-Lucian Swift Kirtland-McBride ($3.50). World travel, which means "The Orient" to most people, is becoming so common that a book of this sort at one's elbow is apt to be disastrously intriguing to all who should stay at home. It costs, says Author Kirtland, just about $15 in gold for every day you are on shore in the Orient. For a decent world-circling tour on your own, you need $3,000-just about what it costs, with "extras," on the round-the-world travel agency tours. With this fair...