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Word: aptly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wife. So the handsome young CPA haunted office buildings and office buildings. Knowing his figures so well it wasn't long before he found exactly the right girl. She was pretty, but not too pretty. She looked up at our here and worshipped his fine mind. She was apt to say at intervals (to his secret delight) "Darling, you are so right...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Creating A Ripple | 10/22/1943 | See Source »

...Sothern, one of the smartest comediennes in the business. In part it is due to a crisp script, which manages to lather up a good deal of apt comic comment on the lives and habits of U.S. defense workers. The film's central characters are Good Girl Maisie Revere (Miss Sothern in her sixth Maisie picture) and Bad Girl Iris (Jean Rogers). They are sidelighted by a cocky test pilot, for whom Maisie falls hard, and by a bolt & nut man-the chinny type who assures every new girl in the plant that he knows all the angles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Oct. 18, 1943 | 10/18/1943 | See Source »

Political Base. In the rush of war, people in the United Nations were apt to lose sight of the internal politics of Germany. But Germany is not only a military force to be crushed. Germany had a political dynamic-an explosive mixture of Naziism and the national will for a war of revenge and expansion that permeated all classes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Man in the Way | 10/11/1943 | See Source »

When the students complain about such conditions to the hostess, she is apt to reply, "Those are my orders," according to the committee

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COUNCIL GROUP ISSUES FINAL REPORT ON FOOD | 9/21/1943 | See Source »

Result: up blossomed a tiny war-baby industry, making wooden filing cabinets whose drawers are apt to sound like a crate of apples rolling downstairs when they are opened-when they can be opened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Furniture Fun | 9/20/1943 | See Source »

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