Word: aptly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...earth. Since he refuses to give details and refers questioners to Army Ordnance-in Washington, it is fair to assume that the famous rocket-men who work for Army Ordnance are interested in the project. They may want merely to know what opposition from nature their rockets are apt to encounter when they climb deep into space. Or they may have a more ambitious interest: a nearby, natural satellite might be a more convenient base in space than the much-discussed artificial satellite...
...horrors grip the student so much as the discovery of a reserve book in his room at noon. Once trapped with an eight dollar fine, he is apt to think of all librarians as dusty financiers practicing free enterprise at his expense. Though a few defects and injustices have beset Lamont's heavy fine system in the past, only some penalty could prevent students from hoarding scarce books. Furthermore, a fund was necessary to replace those copies which have somehow disappeared during the year. A revised schedule of fines, to be tried this spring, will do much to improve...
...leadership in the world struggle. After listening politely from the visitors' gallery to a Nehru speech roundly denouncing U.S. military aid to Pakistan and other mutual-defense policies, St. Laurent told a joint session of the two houses of the Indian Parliament: "On the question of policies most apt to promote international security [there] is a difference between your attitude and ours." Canada, he said, believes in such collective-security pacts as the NATO alliance "to deter possible aggression," and he added: "We . . . know from our long experience that [the U.S.] has no other ambition than to live...
...students manage to get an education at all, of course, it is not entirely the fault of the faculty. The typical Harvard professor is not notable for his Chipsian qualities, nor is he apt to be an enthusiast for the open house ("Do drop in any time," said one legendary professor. "Next May, for instance"). He is forever disappearing behind laboratory doors, or vanishing into the Widener stacks. Once there, he is a law unto himself...
...Cape Cod Novelist Taylor finds just the setting and the people to suit him. Its crusty old characters are dying out, but the ones Taylor describes are more likely to cackle than to whimper when their time comes. True, their role is no longer heroic, and they are more apt to die in bed than at sea. But old codgers like Uncle Veenie and Captain Ezra Cobb are firmly in the Yankee tradition, and they are as slick at fleecing the summer folks as ever their forebears were at trimming the sails...