Word: aptly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Creation" is easy to read because Gamow is skillful at finding simple, apt illustrations for complex ideas. One good method for determining the age of rocks is based on the transmutation of heavier radioactive into isotopes of lead. Gamow likens the lead accumulations to dung deposits in a corral full of cattle: the cattle represent the radio-actives, the corral--rocks, and "primordial dung"--lead present before the transmission began. Then, he says, by considering the rate of dung-deposition of the cattle (or the half-life of the radioactive elements), we can tell when the cattle entered the corral...
Commuters, the report disclosed, are not apt to be found in "bobby talent activities, social activities, or in publications." The report decides, however, as a commuter did, that "both sides over-emphasize the supposed differences between...
This is a subtle thought, difficult to grasp, and has all the tough-minded ear-marks of one of those realistic political principles forged under the pressures of the game hard-played and won or lost on a shrewd, intuitive knowledge of what the other fellow is apt to do next. The Hughes Principle looks to us as if it were tempered to deal with the hard political realities of the time--the reality that pressure groups in these United States no longer judge an idea, or a work of art, or even a motion picture on its meaning...
...Bete does not leap ahead, does the campus politician? Surprisingly enough, the answer is no. The men who went in for four extracurricular activities for instance, are apt to average about $1,000 less than men who went in for no activities at all. And what about the students who worked their way through college? Here the survey shatters an old American illusion. Among the Old Grads of 40 whose parents supported them entirely, 42% make $7,500 or more. The score for the Horatio Alger group...
...also a Harvard man (Class of '53) on a leave of absence. For that reason I am particularly annoyed that my college should be so badly portrayed to the world. Of course the public reads of Harvard's academic and scholarly achievement, but the gullible average reader is more apt to remember the little pranks and foolish escapades of several students. It is not only this face-slapping record. It is an accumulation of all the trivial stunts of students through the years that can hurt a college's reputation. That includes the water-bomb incidents, the disengaged trolley wires...