Word: aptly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After the second drink of bourbon, a Southerner is apt to start talking about those awful freight rates. The subject is no joke in the South. For Southerners claim, and with rebel yells, that discriminatory freight rates have stunted their economic growth and made them mere colonials of the imperial East...
...Postmaster. But one era's highway is apt to be the next era's rut: Ben Hibbs found the magazine freighted with 8,500-word "short" stories, long "bootstrap" opuses on Men Who Made the Grade, a rather-be-right GOPolicy that wasn't confined to the editorial page, an audience that had grown old with Lorimer. Two weeks before Hibbs took over, the price went up to a dime. Hibbs and his 29-year-old managing editor, Robert Fuoss, set out to capture a younger audience with women in some of the seats. (Lorimer...
Though this radio series and an expanded program of stage performances, Allegretti plans to maintain the HDC's present program of experimental theater rather than well-known hits. "A College group has the opportunity to present drama that would not be apt to be seen elsewhere and yet is definitely worthwhile, "he said in outlining a broad plan of stage productions for next year. "And we will continue to put on plays that are not only designed for the public but for the actors themselves...
...commission found that both rural schoolchildren and their taxpaying parents are being "robbed." The larceny is not confined to poor communities. In fact, it is more apt to be an "extravagance" of wealthier districts, where for a variety of reasons (vested tax interests, local pride, standpattism) schools are not put where they should be, or consolidated when a merger would give everybody better schooling. West Virginia generally provides better rural education than richer Illinois, say the commissioners; some of the nation's best districts (e.g., in Fayette County, Ky.) and some of the worst (e.g., in Harlan County...
Miao (wonderful). "Wonderful" painters have no idea what makes them so. Their work is moving but it is apt to look "strange, queer, and have neither reason nor resemblance. This is the result of having brush (pi) but not thought...