Word: aptly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lamp posts have been provided for weak or overstimulated business to cling to and so they are apt to cling to one another. The embrace is called a merger...
...school physician, recognized Harold's rubbing poison ivy on his own face as a symptom of hypo-pituitarianism. When the pituitary gland is underdeveloped the victim is subject to convulsive seizures. These fits differ from those caused by brain infections or other cranial maldevelopments in that they are apt to be erratic and to manifest themselves viciously. They appear with adolescence. Endocrinologists have discovered that young hypo-pituitarians, if untreated, become very fat, sexually undeveloped. This boy was just beginning to manifest those marks. But five to ten grains of sheep's pituitary gland fed hypo-pituitarians daily...
...course will be picked to form a special AA section. Members of this group, according to Professor Burbank will be selected with reference to demonstration of exceptional ability in the subject of Economics during the next three months. This system is being employed so that men who are extremely apt at grasping the true significance of the course will not be obliged to tarry behind with men who are not so inclined...
...social organization of Harvard must necessarily have come as the result of a feeling that there was something wrong, something lacking under the existing state of affairs. It has been said that the Harvard of the present is more a state of mind than anything else, a very apt description in view of the existing lack of anything which might be termed social organization. Every student gets what he can out of Harvard; very little attempt is made to help him. Thus he may or he may not get out of his four years of college that undoubtedly valuable experience...
...onwards." As for the British share: "British statesmen are usually blind to their own tendencies, but vividly aware of their own disinclinations. While not knowing what they are doing or what they want to do, they realize quite clearly what they do not want to do, and they are apt to grasp at this negative, and to proclaim it, in place of the very tiring calculations which any positive policy would entail...