Word: aptly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...they cost about $1500. When it comes to accidents to shells, it is singular to note that it is the experienced men who step through the bottom, and not the novices, simply because the former are careless and too sure of themselves. A University cox is also generally more apt to get in accidents while on practice rows than a greenhorn; a few years ago a University cox ran his boat right up on the float so that the number 2 man could step out on the dock with no trouble...
Henry Ford received the Press last week and strolled with it through Ford Motor Co.'s Dearborn laboratory. In a corner of the room they slipped behind a screen. Said Mr. Ford, grinning eagerly: "They're apt to get mad at me for coming in here...
...Hopson does not believe in publicity and little has ever been written about him. Even were he as garrulous as man}7 a man of his stoutish build is apt to be, it is doubtful whether he would have much to tell of his life. He has no interest except business, and his business life has been a total immersion in figures. In 1922 he was given his present positions with A. G. & E. Before that he had done work for the Interstate Commerce Commission, had headed the Division of Capitalization in the New York Public Service Commission...
...piety. Indeed he may frequently have broken the third Commandment (swearing), or the fourth (breaking the Sabbath), or the seventh (adultery), or the eighth (stealing), or the tenth (covetousness). Nevertheless his family desires a fine funeral, complete with eulogy. So the parson polishes up a sonorous speech, hunts for apt quotations...
...that set a premium on immortality and fame are Pisanello's medallion portraits of the great folk at the courts of Ferrara, Mantua, and Milan. Although small in scale, through the accuracy of modelling and characterization, they partake of the qualities of monumental works of art. One is apt to remember the sharp profile of Paleologus in the fantastic dress of Byzantium, the appropriately gentle likeness of Cecilia Gonzaga, and the strangely fascinating head of Leonello d'Este. We may see side by side the first proofs in lead and the later casts in bronze, in every case chased...