Word: aptly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Building booms come less often than booms in other industries, but when they do they are apt to last longer. The prospects for building in 1924, estimated by the Dow Service, are $600,000,000 for New York City and $6,000,000,000 for the nation?both of them new high records...
...solve the thousand and one problems that confront them. If they are lucky enough to know someone in the University their way is easier. However, for the man who is just entering, who knows no one, the road is hard and memories of the first trying days are apt to be decidedly unpleasant...
...Significance. Life seen with exquisite clarity, subtlety, thoughtfulness, humor, sometimes with scorn or sorrow, but never with spite or despair. Unerring felicity of word and line?work so beautifully, unobtrusively apt and accomplished that beside it most contemporary prose seems careless and shoddy. And yet the technique is not all?is merely an instrument?is never brittle?the insight pierces deep and is very clear. A world built up of tiny, crystalline fragments?but a world that will remain when many great fictional constellations now spinning in the literary void have expired like wet fireworks...
...Imperial Educational Conference in London, L. C. M. S. Amery, First Lord of the Admiralty, said: " Education is the foundation and life of a nation." The idea is not novel. And the emphasis is bad. Education for the mere purpose of propping up a nation is apt to be a very curious kind of education. Spanish books of history speak thus of our war with Spain: " After battles on land and sea and many heroic deeds by our brave soldiers and sailors, Spain agreed to peace terms which obliged the North Americans to pay us twenty million dollars of their...
...weapons of that spiritual war fill the rest of the volume?nine armories of selections?the collected best of his work. A collected edition is often apt to prove either an unfortunately top-heavy monument or a comfortable wheel-chair for a dying reputation. This is neither. Doubtless the work is uneven ? some of the branches on the tree are dead and others stunted ? of what collected works could that not be said ? But, on the whole, the volume displays a force and beauty truly of our own blood and earth, no longer merely in promise...