Word: aptly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more interested in Europe. Paul pulled his mop-haired, earnest younger brother Edgar out of the Latin Quarter, where Edgar was composing critical essays on French dramatists, sent him off to the front as a correspondent. Edgar occasionally annoyed the home office by leading a battle story with an apt piece of Latin verse, but he did increasingly well...
...life in the community fails to illustrate the teaching of the schools, the individual is more apt to conform to the community mores than he is to hold fast to the teaching of his school or college," it is asserted. "And yet the salvation of the community depends upon those individuals whose education gives them the moral and intellectual strength to stand out when necessary against the majority...
City editors know from experience that the rewrite battery is apt to get lyrical during the summer silly season. Last week the New York Daily News's Leonard Smith, face to face with a fish story, let himself go for a half-column. Samples...
Everywhere Franklin Roosevelt went, a well-meaning band was apt to burst into Home on the Range, thinking it his favorite song...
lines on the international routes, where the foreign competition is most apt to be brass-knuckled. Although commercial fly ing across the Atlantic is brand-new to T.W.A. and American, flying the oceans is old stuff. American, for example, is cur rently flying seven round trips a day over the North Atlantic for the Army's Air Transport Command...