Word: aptly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...atmosphere. An "animal capsule," he says, can be carried by the satellite, and the heartbeat and breathing of its inmate can be sent down to earth by radio. Other instruments can report how the spaceborne animal responds to "zero gravity." The most interesting effects of weightlessness, Schaefer admits, are apt to be psychological, and so they will not be observed in full flower until a human has been exposed to zero gravity, but he hopes that even spaceborne mice will develop a few space neuroses...
...child, tries to manipulate the thinking and affairs of a beautiful nymphomaniac, a black-marketeer, a Protestant minister. Aunt Mathilde, who earns a pathetic living for herself and Constance, is appalled. "A crippled child, and now, a whore! With your mania for rubbing up against humanity, you're apt to force almost anyone on us." Constance drives, insults and cracks the whip over her human menagerie. When her creatures eventually go their own ways, she has nothing left, not even God, "who gets all the credit for our good deeds, while we are credited only with...
Except for Psychologist J. B. Rhine (extrasensory perception), few of Duke's professors have achieved popular fame. Yet, on almost any academic or Government committee, there is apt to be at least one faculty representative from Duke. Economist Calvin Hoover was one of Averell Harriman's top advisers on the Marshall Plan. Eber Malcolm Carroll, an authority on German history, served in the OSS during the war, directed the editing of captured German papers. Physicists Walter Nielsen and Lothar Nordheim played major roles at Oak Ridge. Neurosurgeon Barnes Woodhall is a ranking consultant to the Veterans Administration. Congregations...
Pusey said that the economic position of educational institutions demanded the support of both state and industry, but that their influence should not increase correspondingly. "This danger is apt to grow as colleges look to government and business for the sustinence they must have to keep alive...
...sellers of vacuum cleaners, food freezers, storm windows, "have gypped . . . our public out of millions." For example, the decoy couples called a station about a sewing machine advertised at $26.50. They were visited by a sharper who confided that the machine was not very good; its needle was apt to snap under heavy strain and could not be replaced. Then he offered a $50 discount on a $189.50 model...