Word: aptly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...often biography is a poor compromise between conflicting aims. The author, hoping to evaluate personality, setting, and significance, is apt to fly off in all directions, leaving little or no impression of his work as a whole, or more probably lapse into a one-sideness which sacrifices accuracy for interest. Professor Irvine's Apes, Angels, and Victorians strikes a skillful compromise, no small achievement for an author whose task is the portrayal of not one but two great men, the idea which made them both significant, and the times in which they lived. It is through the common dedication...
Agreement about the answers is prevented because interests conflict. Not until this conflict is resolved will there be agreement. Tum demum. Most questions of educational, as domestic and foreign policy, are apt to end in some sort of compromise. This question is pre-eminently one which, in my opinion, calls for compromise based not on tradition but on the actual situation. Joshua Whatmough, Chairman, Department of Linguistics
Although the War of 1812 slowed down the building process, in the spring of that year President Kirkland made an "apt and graceful" dedication speech in which he referred to the "elegant simplicity and pleasing appearance of the commodious and ornamental edifice." Despite his praise for the building, the President was by no means so pleased with its name. He complained that "Holworthy had two aspirates between the 'I' and the 'th' which twist and squeeze the organs not a little." Apparently, no one else had such extraordinary difficulties with the word; at least, no better name was suggested...
...Road Back. But the campaign against the church was not a success. Indians were apt to cut off the ears of the government agents sent to incite them against their priests. Slowly, the cloud of terror lifted. President Lázaro Cárdenas (1934-40) was a far-leftist politically, but he quietly called off the anticlerical crusade, and the church began to build its way back...
...never had so many working literary critics as now, never so few who seem to enjoy what they read. One result is that they are themselves seldom read except by colleagues and students. Most readers are apt to conclude that the highbrow critics dig too much and dig up too little. At worst, they suggest that literature is so serious a business that it is a mistake to look to it for pleasure...