Word: aptly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...done to be worthy of imitation, but these are not characteristics peculiar to the Fogg Museum alone. The museum is unique in its close coordination between instruction in the history of art and the exhibits in its galleries. In this respect it differs from most college museums, which are apt to be nothing but repositories for all material accumulated by gifts or haphazard purchase regardless of its illustrative value. In marked contrast to the heterogeneous mixtures of good, bad, and indifferent creations of past ages usually seen in such exhibits, there is a definite purpose behind every object...
...safe to say that PRC's bankers, Drexel & Co., were not especially proud of these properties. Production fell off, profits came hard, sometimes did not come at all. In the opinion of coalmen, statisticians and investors, PRC was definitely on the downgrade. Now Drexel-Partner Newhall is very apt to feel proud when he points to PRC maps. A noble experiment seems to be working...
From August he learned many useful facts, many ornamental dodges. August had been everywhere, done everything and everybody; but when he was in a tight place was apt to confess himself a miserable and not quite bright sinner. From failure and success he made equally quick recoveries. Edevart and he roamed the country, peddled worthless watches, fished, worked in the fields, schemed, got drunk and lost everything, time & again. August, always on the way up or down, never got anywhere; but Edevart nearly made his pile, succeeded at least in giving his young brother the chance to reap where...
Steering the interview deftly into quiet channels, Sir Percival soon had Mr. Ford saying: "I think that in England you make too much of your troubles. Take unemployment. There is a great deal of it in England. But your figures are apt to give a wrong impression...
Love, even of the unromantic, pagan kind Mrs. Mead found in Samoa, is non-existent among the Manus. Children, like their father, who spoils them, are apt to despise their mother. They are callous about death, birth, the facts of life. Women get no joy out of marriage. Maturity and middle age mean constant debt and hard work. "Above the 35-year-olds comes a divided group?the failures still weak and dependent, and the successes who dare again to indulge in the violence of childhood, who stamp and scream at their debtors, and give way to uncontrolled hysterical rage...