Word: aptly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...examples is no accident; 35% of Exposition's output last year was poetry.) Happy customers and favorable reviews are quoted, successful promotions of the firm's books are played up. By pamphlet's end, a writer hungry for the heady sight of print is very apt to start wondering where he can borrow the cash to pay for the first installment...
...publishes at its own risk) is rarer still. Says Publisher Uhlan: "Our authors must be prepared psychologically and financially to lose money. Other houses may promise riches. We never promise riches. We just offer immortality!" Immortality is the one thing that no book thus far published by Exposition is apt to achieve. Though house editors and freelance polishers work over the sometimes "shapeless" manuscripts that come in, many of them still emerge as embarrassingly bad books and most of them might better have been carried to the attic...
...chairmanship of faculty meetings, is able to guide the University on its long-range policies. To the undergraduates who question Conant's lack of knowledge on such projects as parietal rules and student porters, a remark he once made to a dean of another college furnisher an apt answer. "I couldn't get into the housekeeping details even if I wanted to. I just have time to look after the dollars and the professors...
...buckled on the breastplates of pageantry. The occasion was the traditional Trooping the Color in honor of Elizabeth II's 26th birthday. Actually, she became 26 last April 21, but like her December-born father agreed to celebrate in June so that her subjects would be more apt to have a sunny holiday...
...Chambers, a commercial artist who never wanted children, left his wife and two sons for some years-and gave them a living allowance of $8 a week. Even after he came back to his family, he seldom spoke except to quarrel with his mother-in-law, who was apt to roam the house brandishing a butcher's knife...