Word: aptly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Intellectuals are apt to consider themselves somewhat more intelligent and sensitive than most people, and in Poe's case, the root of the trouble seems to have been that he was. He grandly offered to solve any cipher that his readers sent him. People sent him dishonest ciphers-i.e., those which a correspondent could not have readily deciphered even with the key. Poe solved them anyway. His critical essays, that seemed so ill-tempered to his contemporaries, now seem merely honest and forthright. In general, posterity has agreed with...
Such questions carry their own answers, if, as is certainly the case with Author Plievier, the author's rhetoric is sufficiently apt and impassioned. Stalingrad is not much as fiction, but it has the impressiveness of a terrifying, twice-told lesson taught by an adamant professor of humanity...
...architects have designed the buildings in keeping with Harvard's three centuries of construction by minimizing the massive effect such a large group of houses is apt to create. "When you walk through the Yard," the architects point out, "you are not struck by the number of buildings so much as by the trees the paths, and the people. In the same way, the Houses by the river are spread out so that they never...
...successful operation of the whole system of medical care . . . is dependent upon the size of the participating clientele . . . The benefits inherent in the system are apt to be fairly uniformly spread from year to year...
Life on a Timetable. The "quenchless ambition of an ordered mind" that Biographer Freeman finds in George Washington is an apt description of Freeman himself...