Word: aptly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Department of Agriculture Dr. Mordecai Joseph Brill Ezekiel stands for pure intellect. Mild mannered, younger looking than his 36 years, he sits in a large office and thinks. In his mind, apt in higher mathematics, are formulated many of the more abstract ideas found in the speeches of Henry Agard Wallace, for Dr. Ezekiel is Economic Adviser to the Secretary of Agriculture. From this mind came last week a project which should make Dr. Francis Everett ("$200 per month") Townsend look to his reputation as an innovator of social security. Not only did Dr. Ezekiel propose a monthly income...
...Majesty is a weak-eyed young man whom most Japanese reverence without knowing or asking whether Emperor Hirohito is either strong or clever. To such questions from a foreigner, Japanese of high station are apt to reply blandly, "The Emperor is young...
...would not be a new experiment, since Yale and Dartmouth have used it with success. At Dartmouth the plan works excellently, since over three-quarters of the students use the gymnasium and other athletic buildings. Because they are paying for them in any case, the students are more apt to take advantage of the buildings and thus derive benefit from physical activity...
...Hurja looks in his black book, holding it close to his vest like a poker player, and says in a flat voice, "Roosevelt can lick Talmadge 4-to-1 in Florida," or "There is not a single Republican candidate who can carry his own state against Roosevelt," he is apt to be believed by non-partisan visitors...
Hormones of the endocrine glands control the growth of hair. The adrenals stimulate growth. Precisely what hormone causes baldness is unknown. But in man the male sex hormone is definitely the ringleader. Wiry, energetic men are apt to be shaggy. Dumpy, cunning men are apt to be bald. Food or drugs may restore hair to a glandular baldhead if the follicles are nourished before they die. Repeated scares or fits of anger may cause baldness by causing the capillaries of the scalp to constrict. Such hypersensitive constriction prevents blood from getting to the hair follicles and nourishing them. Rages...