Word: aptly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Floyd Stahl's Varsity nine is still looking for its first Eastern Intercollegiate League victory and is not apt to find it in Princeton Saturday afternoon unless warmer weather loosens up Harvard efforts at the plate. One lone run was all to that Coach Stahl's men were able to manufacture in their last two home appearances against Tufts and Boston University throughout 18 innings of play...
...average man modern architecture, modern furniture, modern city planning suggest depressing acres of window-pitted, slablike walls, rooms like hospital wards, cubical stacks of identically planned apartments, chairs of undernourished metalwork, "housing" developments that resemble mass-produced jails. He is apt to forget such examples of perfect, modern design as the airplane, the suspension bridge, the ocean liner...
This book is essentially a study in the urban workings of democracy, and a sight more informative one than most sociologists would be apt to produce. Authors Thompson & Raymond are both able and knowledgeable newspapermen. Much of what they have to tell has been known to other such newspapermen for years, but it has been left to them to pull it together. One good reason for the delay is that, until Prosecutors Dewey and Cahill finally got the goods on Messrs. Jimmy Hines, Martin Manton et al., the anatomy of gang rule in New York City could not be fully...
...Deputies, he roared: "What France really needs is toimport a few more good anthropophagites like me and we would eat 'em alive." As a good Mohammedan, he has three wives and seven legitimate children. "Two wives," says Diouf, "are a necessity for every normal man. A third is apt to be expensive and thefourth is a downright luxury." He loves practical jokes, such as collecting a huge crowd of Frenchmen on the banks of the Seine by pointing at the river and jabbering in pidgin French about how big and dangerous French crocodiles...
...Dental Surgery, first in the world. In the freshman class were five students, their only qualifications reading & writing, tough biceps. After a four-month course, the boys went out into the world to battle brawny patients, crazy with pain. "Be pitiless," counseled Dr. Harris. "As the patient is very apt to catch the hand of the operator, he must have both hands ready and, when one is pulled away, seize the instrument with the other and so go on until the operation is complete...