Word: aptly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Concerning your Feb. 6 article, "The Sisters of Abigail Adams," Sister Bellamy's cheesecake is undoubtedly a potent example of the omnipotent female bludgeon of sex ; but for a more apt manifestation of "the most invincible feminine weapon of all," TIME should turn to the Ogden Nash and S. J. Perelman version of Venus, who -. . . found herself a goddess...
...best foreign film of 1949 by the New York critics, and receiving several other American and European awards. "The Bicycle Thief" is an excellent, occasionally brilliant document of the plight of "the little man." In all the noise about "the world's most acclaimed motion picture," however, one is apt to forget that it has short comings, like most other films...
...matter how splendidly a dog may behave around the kennels, he's apt to get temperamental in the show ring. A pug, owned by a little woman from West Roxbury, has been cleaning up in recent Maine shows but evidently he tightened up the other day. When a pug in being exhibited, he's supposed to curl up his tall and according to the woman from West Roxbury, "That follow can make his tall as tight as my fist; but I can't imagine what happened to him yesterday, why, it he'd just lot it hang it wouldn...
...Council's control of freshman activities were extended. Harvard is a highly individualistic society; mass functions are almost unheard of, small social units, either formal or informal, are rare, and generally speaking most men are highly proficient in one line. In freshman year however, these "professional" interests are more apt to be latent and thus face greater competition from other ones; the fundamental concepts of a liberal education rest on this assumption...
Kidnaping and beating are nothing unusual in occupied Vienna, where the bare description of a day's events is apt to read like a Raymond Chandler thriller; since 1945, Russians have kidnaped 660 people in Vienna, usually political "suspects." What was unusual and shocking about the abduction of Oswald Eder on Armistice Day was that it was executed by American G.I.s who had hired themselves out to the Russians...