Word: aptly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...visual. Items: when asked to draw a chess board on a table, hapticals draw a player's view of the board and table top, visuals draw the whole thing in perspective, showing the table's legs. In a word association test, to the word "climbing" visuals are apt to respond: "mountain"; hapticals: "hard." Asked to think of the number of floors in a familiar building, visuals picture it from the outside, hapticals mentally climb its stairs...
...about the G.I. reaction: "I used to be afraid the real soldiers wouldn't like me," he says, "but they don't seem to mind me being a swooner." The band's publicity-minded program director, Warrant Officer Paul Dudley, says with boding triumph: "Sinatra is apt to push; The Creamer just bides his time...
Necessity was the mother of his gridiron inventiveness. Because Tech's academic standards were high, his squads correspondingly small, onetime Mathematics Professor William Anderson Alexander devised an intricate type of play that few but his apt engineers could have mastered. Ruddy-faced Coach Alex carried his chalk and blackboard to the half-time dressing rooms, substituted diagraming for tear-jerking pep talks. He said rousing up the boys produced mental instability...
Those women who, like Penelope, have the sense to stay home or go back to it and keep busy, preferably at a war job, are apt to find adjustment easier. But others, particularly those recently married or childless, often develop pathological reactions in the form of physiological disturbances, resentment against the husband, inability to recall the husband's face or to sense the reality of the married state, vague fears of infidelity. Most susceptible are "orally demanding" women, those requiring constant assurances of their husband's devotion...
...civilian alike, has been planned by the Freshman Affairs Committee of the Student Council in co-operation with the Lowell House Committee. It is designed to help the large Freshman Class get acquainted, in view of the fact that because of the war, membership in the Class is apt to change rapidly...