Word: aptly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Back home some 400,000 miners heard the latest news with evident relief. Another strike would indeed have made Christmas even bleaker than it was apt to be anyhow in the coalfields of Ohio, West Virginia, Kentucky, Illinois, Pennsylvania. The boss had called them out in March and again in June. In July he had put them on a three-day week; in September he had ordered them into a full-scale strike which had ended in the uncertain three-week truce. Among the highest paid industrial labor in the U.S. when they work, the miners had worked only...
When engineers let their imaginations go-in a properly professional manner-they are apt to think about rockets, whose limit is above the sky. Last week a Manhattan meeting of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers heard Professor Hsue-shen Tsien, Chinese-born rocket expert from Caltech, on the prospects in rocketeering. Most of Dr. Tsien's paper was technical, e.g., how to keep the walls of combustion chambers from melting. But his conclusion was clear and startling: present-day technology is capable of building a transcontinental rocket ship...
...worry Adenauer. In his 13-man cabinet, eight Christian Democrat ministers (of the remaining five, three are Free Democrats, two are members of the German Party) always assure him of a working majority. When he is asked if he can get cabinet approval of a particular measure, he is apt to say bluntly: "Don't worry. I am at least 70% of that cabinet...
Filling in with impromptu remarks while waiting for a member who had forgotten his music, Mr. Holmes suggested the difficulty faced by an amateur orchestra in finding appropriate music for its programs. Works simple enough to be performed by the non-professional musician are quite apt to be unsatisfactory to the listener. Granting the validity of this problem, it is more to the credit of Mr. Holmes and his Orchestra that they were able to select a program which would please the audience while still falling within the technical limitations of the players...
...silvery nudes belonged "to no nationality, no epoch. I have had 3,000 models and I don't need them any more." He had imparted an oriental delicacy to such details as the hair and toes, but generally slurred over the major elements that better draftsmen are apt to emphasize: the thrust of a knee or elbow, the twist of a torso or the solid bulge of a thigh. Shining out against deep black backgrounds, his nudes had more flow than form...