Word: aptness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...large cities, he speaks of the commuter who "spends his half hour not in healthy exercise but in hurtling through the bowels of the earth in a little hell of ugliness and stuffiness and racket and overcrowding". Only in a few scattered phrases does he succeed in such apt description, while more nauseating metaphors such as "the toothaches and pimples of our spiritual experiences" abound...
...clock, Dr. Friedrich will talk on "Judicial Supremacy in Europe." Americans too apt to scorn any system dissimilar to the best American style, give little thought to schemes of judicature so different from their own as those of Europe...
...their homes in Nanking which was most extensive last week, seemed only an essentially minor disaster in the wreck of their spiritual work. The typical Christian missionary places his loyalty to China second only to that for his homeland; and his concern for the welfare of the Chinese is apt to exceed the care he takes of his family or himself...
Rome despatches, carefully censored, told no names. But in the shrewd reply, a smack of the old wit of white-haired Cardinal-Bishop Vincenzo Vannutelli, 91-year old Dean of the Sacred College, might be seen. Or, others guessed, of Cardinal-Bishop Gaetano de Lai, as famed for apt reply as sharp-tongued Irish divine. Dean Swift...
...like the House of Lords the Student Council is apt to be intensely conservative because its members are usually satisfied with the status quo of the pond in which they are very big frogs...