Word: aptly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ways of making them stretch their minds. Every morning he has been on hand to have breakfast with them; after that, he guided them spiritually from the pulpit in chapel. He conducted his own Bible class, and in the afternoon, his dog Rani trotting at his side, he was apt to lead a group of boys into the woods for a discourse on woods lore. At dinner or at tea-or during his daily rounds through the infirmary-he would try to draw his students out on every sort of topic-from the materials used in Syrian pottery...
...bleacher jockeys often get involved in the free-for-alls that brighten the Puerto Rican afternoon. Not long ago, a cop caught a razor-blade salesman handing out free samples in the San Juan stands. Puerto Rican fans have never been known to shave between innings, but they are apt to find other uses for razors...
High and Dry is an apt description of where this picture leaves its moments of excellent humor. Stranded above a morass of soggy sentiment and damp moralizing are the touches that have pushed British comedy beyond popularity to the point...
...tell, just by looking, whether a tall black cloud will merely drop a shower, or whether it will lash out with a twister. Last week the U.S. Weather Bureau was on the trail of a promising way of telling in advance which of the tall black clouds are apt to be pregnant with tornadoes...
...wave, which meteorologists call the "jump-line.'' is not dangerous, but the Weather Bureau has found that it is apt to set off the violent thunderstorms that lash the earth with twisters. In one study, 82% of the tornadoes struck within an hour of a pressure jump...