Word: aptly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...National Gallery Curator John Walker has pointed out. those who assume ''that anything printed in color is an accurate copy" are apt to be sadly misled about the very nature of painting. But laymen and scholars alike, who study what originals they can as well as reproductions, and who recognize reproductions simply as useful approximations of the original paintings, can gain from them a breadth of art knowledge and understanding never before possible...
...friendly with his subordinates may find himself no longer able to make clear-cut decisions. But an aloof leader may isolate himself too much from his key man (e.g., foreman, or top sergeant) and thus lose touch with his group. When this happens, the rank and file are apt to turn to someone else as an informal leader. Therefore, the most effective leaders according to Fiedler, are men who are properly matched to their subordinates. When possible, an overly friendly commander should be assigned to a taut unit with rigid barriers between lesser ranks. Overly aloof leaders should command units...
...Australians. The U.S. is not anxious to bind itself to defend precarious and far-off regimes on Asia's southern shores. France wants to include Indo-China in the area protected by the alliance; Britain says it is already too late. Out of such a conglomeration is apt to come a maximum of rhetoric and a mini mum of commitment...
When a priest and a sinner become fond of each other, an account of their genial tilting is apt to make a readable story. Such bestselling authors as Giovanni Gua reschi (The Little World, oj Don Camilla), Bruce Marshall (The World, the Flesh, and Father Smith), and A. J. Cronin (The Keys of the Kingdom) have made the most of it. Now enters Dutch Novelist Arie van der Lugt with The Crazy Doctor, to show that the everlasting contest goes on in Holland too. It is, after all, a universal story, its interest limited only by the writer...
After a field is found, bacteria prove pesky saboteurs. The drilling mud that oilmen force down the well often contains starch, tannin and other things that bacteria love to work on. So the mud is apt to go sour and spoil like milk left out of the refrigerator. Dr. Beerstecher's advice: disinfectants to keep the mud sweet and efficient...