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Word: aptly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...various times throughout the year the Council is apt to sponsor special events, such as photography contests, art shows, recitals, and forums. It also arranges a series of concentration dinners in the spring where freshmen can meet professors from their prospective fields of concentration and ask questions over the friendly influence of a glass of sherry. These dinners are among the most valuable activities of the Council, and often help share concentration plans...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Building is Now Center for Freshman Activities The Harvard Union was Begun as Part of a Crusade for Democracy | 9/18/1969 | See Source »

...Street home and you, as a new member of the class of 73, get to queue up and shake their hand before retiring to the punch bowl where a bunch of Episcopal chaplains try to trap you into conversation. It's about the only occasion on which you're apt to find most of your classmates wearing dark, two-piece suits. Personally, I don't remember what the Puse said to me. (As little as possible, I would imagine.) But I do recall Mrs. Pusey, as she looked at my light blue, summer sports coat with its white pin stripes...

Author: By Gregg J. Kilday, | Title: The Year of the Freshman: an annual social event thrown for 1200 selected students, with lifelong repercussions | 9/18/1969 | See Source »

TRUE GRIT. John Wayne has his finest hour in this cornball western comedy. His genial, self-satirizing performance as an aging lawman proves that his nickname, Duke, has seldom been more apt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Sep. 12, 1969 | 9/12/1969 | See Source »

...time of his long screen life in this cornball western comedy about a stubborn old marshal who joins forces with a headstrong teen-age girl (Kim Darby) to bring some murderers to justice. The Duke's performance as the marshal proves that his nickname has never been more apt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Sep. 5, 1969 | 9/5/1969 | See Source »

...dubious alternatives of a) deducting a work's original cost-rather a wrench if he had the wit to buy it 20 years ago -or b) claiming its current value and paying capital gains tax on the difference between that and its initial cost. Neither alternative is apt to encourage the philanthropic spirit. "Countless treasures that come to us under the present tax laws will be cut off entirely," says Perry Rathbone, director of Boston's Museum of Fine Arts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Museums: Of Gifts and Taxes | 8/29/1969 | See Source »

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