Word: aptly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...George Washington a more lovable figure for popular consumption. Readers of the seven thick volumes on Lee and his generals know that Freeman is not a portrait painter who gets his effect with quick, inspired strokes; his method is careful and cumulative. His works are what book reviewers are apt to call monumental, and monumental they literally are: built block by patient block, soundly based, immense, monochromatic-and towering high...
...quirks of humor, or plain cussedness, and he must take everything that is thrown at him without a murmur, for he is lower than the lowest galley-slave in the eyes of his more advanced brothers-in-arms. And these latter companions, having been Plebes once themselves, are not apt to let him forget how low this...
...also this type of student who gives Holt the biggest headaches. Many of them turn up their noses at $40 a week jobs for less remunerative ones that will keep them in a lower income tax bracket. Others, who work for the pleasure of it are apt to quit at a crucial moment without telling their employees. Needless to say, this does no good to the reputation of the Bureau...
...monastic old school would do better to imitate the social life at St. James in Maryland, where there were three dances a year and dates almost every week. Otherwise he was sticking by Bromsgrove. Said Reeve: "At Bromsgrove, we developed a thirst for knowledge. At St. James, boys were apt to regard culture as a sign of decadence, devotion to learning as the mark of a sissy. The student merely wants to learn enough to pass the next test. Then it goes out of his mind as easily as it came...
Commuter trains, which habitually lose money, are habitually dirty, uncomfortable, crowded, apt to be late-and generally a closer kin to Emett's famed Punch cartoons than to the glossy streamliners. The short-run trains are little better. For the smell of stale tobacco smoke, the sight of stained seat cushions, and close contact with orange peel, cigar butts, and sandwich wrappers, the U.S. offers nothing quite like a Pennsylvania Railroad day coach on the New York to Washington...