Word: aptly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Oberlin's 2,300 students are above-average bright-61 of this year's 450 freshmen were first in their high school classes-and apt to be complacent about it. Said one recent graduate: "We loved to remind each other that our average IQ approached the threshold of genius." Most Oberlin people go on to graduate school, do especially well in the sciences. Equalitarian Oberlin bans automobiles, and although almost every student pedals a bicycle, the hot spots of Cleveland-and Elyria-are out of effective range. But high spirits burst out, sometimes beerily. Night climbing expeditions have...
...aging citizen must plan ahead. He must stop feeling guilty over the fact that oldsters are alleged to complain too much about their illnesses. (Geriatricians argue that the aged, because they are less responsive to pain, are apt to complain too little, so that dangerous conditions go undetected until they are irreparable.) He must take advantage of the limited but growing knowledge that geriatrics has amassed. Dr. Zeman likes to quote Sir James Crichton-Browne (who lived to be 97): "There is no short cut to longevity. To achieve it is the work of a lifetime...
...down payment required for purchases, actually turned out in many cases to be to the advantage of both consumer and creditor. A man who had bought a car with no money down and 36 months to pay had so little equity in the car that he was apt to say "Come and get it" if pressed too hard to pay. Result: many a creditor carried his jobless customers to save himself the trouble and cost of repossession-and usually got his money when the customer's lot improved. Says the vice president of a Cleveland bank: "Our psychology...
WHEN a big, secluded estate is rented by an eccentric couple who order beef by the side, buns by the gross-and when the delivery boy has to leave the supplies outside the fence -people are apt to be curious. For what a Buenos Aires cop discovered when he climbed the fence, see THE HEMISPHERE, Big Red Schoolhouse...
...girls are, hopefully, interested in more than socializing, despite an apparent pre-occupation with pinning, engagement, and marriage. The description offered by one of them, that they are "both interested and interesting," is, in the majority of instances, very apt...