Word: aptly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Does it perhaps calculate that under these conditions governments subject to moral and religious influences will not be apt to use them? And would the Soviet government, which is itself not subject to moral and religious restraints, thereby gain a special freedom of action and initiative as regards such weapons? And does the Soviet Union not want nuclear weapons to be refined into effective defensive weapons which could repel an aggressive attack by those who control the most manpower...
...tortures and burnings of heretics on both sides became part of each nation's struggle to maintain its chosen order. Britain's Henry VIII, for example, quarreled with Papists as well as Protestants when he deemed them a menace to his royal law and order, was apt to burn both on the same day. Luther condemned radical sectarians-Zwinglians, Anabaptists, peasant-reformers-with righteous enthusiasm. Too-temperate Catholics fell victims to their own Inquisition...
...grey-haired man were correct, as such men are apt to be, then Harvard can be a haven for maturity and ofttimes for happiness. For the College, although we rarely admit it to ourselves, is the place to conform. At first glance Harvard seems to be the haven for the individualist, but after some inspection (and introspection) it becomes apparent that undergraduates are trying to be different in the same basic ways...
...20th Century-Fox) is based on the study, made by two University of Georgia psychiatrists, of a three-way split personality (TIME, Feb. 18). Unfortunately, the performers of such parts have about as much chance of making a score as a three-horse parlay. And the moviegoer is apt to find himself, long before the picture is over, feeling like an inmate, and watching narrowly for a chance to escape...
Presented throughout the dock area twice a year for the past two years, the morality plays have become an East End institution. By their charities, austere life and hard work, the Anglican Franciscans have impressed East Enders, who at first were apt to dismiss them as so many practitioners of the "soul racket." But the East End is still overwhelmingly unchurched. To Father Oswald the plays' purpose is the same one that sent 15th century Christians into England's streets to perform the classic morality play Everyman (in which God dispatches Death to demand an immediate "rekenynge" from...