Word: aptly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years of the New Deal revolution, businessmen had learned to be wary as alley cats. Even when they plied their trades unmolested, they knew that any time they carelessly stepped into the light they were apt to catch a flying epithet or get tripped into a bureaucratic deadfall. If it was not class warfare, it sometimes seemed a lot like...
...reserving the front door for important occasions like funerals. If the canvassers found a front door opening stiffly and creakily, they were sure of finding a worker's family and pro-Labor sentiments behind it. But if the door moved easily on smooth-worn hinges, they were apt to find a lower middle class family and Conservative sympathies...
Auctions are apt to produce some bargains as well as some fantastically high prices, but the "anonymous" Madonna and Child recently knocked down at a Manhattan auction for $1,200 seemed to be one of the biggest bargains in auction history...
Back home some 400,000 miners heard the latest news with evident relief. Another strike would indeed have made Christmas even bleaker than it was apt to be anyhow in the coalfields of Ohio, West Virginia, Kentucky, Illinois, Pennsylvania. The boss had called them out in March and again in June. In July he had put them on a three-day week; in September he had ordered them into a full-scale strike which had ended in the uncertain three-week truce. Among the highest paid industrial labor in the U.S. when they work, the miners had worked only...
When engineers let their imaginations go-in a properly professional manner-they are apt to think about rockets, whose limit is above the sky. Last week a Manhattan meeting of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers heard Professor Hsue-shen Tsien, Chinese-born rocket expert from Caltech, on the prospects in rocketeering. Most of Dr. Tsien's paper was technical, e.g., how to keep the walls of combustion chambers from melting. But his conclusion was clear and startling: present-day technology is capable of building a transcontinental rocket ship...