Word: aptly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...coronet fell off at the door of Westminster Abbey in 1911, it was announced last week that Princess Elizabeth, 10-year-old heir to the Throne, will profit by this lesson of experience. Her Royal Highness will be supplied with a very short train not apt to trip her, a very light coronet not apt to slide off in any case, equipped with a strong elastic band...
...better drivers are married and only moderately well-off. While a dark-eyed person is less subject to glare blindness than a blue-eyed one and therefore a better night driver, he is more apt to be colorblind, said Dr. DeSilva...
Once affiliated with the Presbyterian and church, Knox made an apt choice in Davidson. He is a of the Congregational , ordained in two years after he the duties of Carleton's president. Harvard gave him his the University of his M. A., Chicago Ph. D. He has the Universities of and Chicago...
...Lennie was enormous, floppy-looking but Herculean, and a halfwit. George and Lennie were pals. Lennie was always getting them into trouble, losing them jobs, getting them run out of town because he liked to pet things - mice, little girls, rabbits. Not conscious of his blundering strength, Lennie was apt to kill what he petted. George kept him in line as well as he could by bawling him out, threatening to leave him, telling him a beautiful fairy story about how they would save enough money to buy a little farm, settle down in comfort, let Lennie take care...
...true story, it has its lighter moments, which Author Harding plays up for all they are worth; and because the story goes on so long, as stories in real life are apt to, its tired finale is as welcome as a happy ending...