Word: aptly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gallup pollsters reported that U.S. parents consider boys easier to raise than girls. Reasons: boys require less attention and clothes, have fewer social problems, are apt to be less temperamental...
...sons of Senators and Congressmen, board in. Headmaster Henry H. Callard thinks that the main advantage of a country day school is its kinship with its community: since most of the kids go home to dinner, they never lose touch with the world of grownups, as boys are apt to do at boarding schools. But he has a right to be proud for another reason. After 50 years, the Oilman Country School is still the best secondary school in Baltimore...
Shahn's realism is apt to falter when he tries to reproduce a tree in the wind or the curve of a hill. "That part doesn't interest me so much," he says. "God can do what He likes, but man is more surprising...
Last week was easy but today the Varsity soccer team is apt to run into more trouble for this afternoon the Crimson booters line up against the Cadets from West Point on the Academy grounds. Traditionally one of the powers in Eastern soccer, the Cadets represent the first real test of the 1947 soccer team which last week crushed Tufts...
...further warning, homecomings at colleges such as Virginia are not apt to make for last-minute sleeping accommodations within a 30-mile radius...