Word: aptness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Tutors Apt to Show Preference...
...because they were interested in it in any particular sense; they had to choose something, poor fellows, and they chose the subject which sounded nice or easy or looked vaguely attractive on the program. To be sure, the tutor continues meeting them at stated intervals, but he is apt to make the duration of the conferences rather short and the interval between them rather long, while, conversely, to the abler students he gives of himself eagerly and without stint. Meanwhile, he soothes his conscience with the reflection that the average student, lacking intellectual individuality as he does, is not entitled...
Sport like Education has become the privilege of proletarians, as it was once of the bourgeoisie and the artistocracy. Rowing has attained great popularity for both sexes. The observant traveler is apt to be particularly struck by young Amazonian working girls, who slather up and down the Moscow River, with nothing on but a red kerchief, a rowing shirt, and a pair of blue trunks...
Since it is our settled Naval policy, at least for the present, that the country's first line of defense must be kept on the Pacific coast, Admiral Robison, in his flagship the Seattle, and Admiral Hughes, whose flagship will be the California, will be apt to spend much of their time near the great major ship concentration base at Bremerton, on Puget Sound. There Admiral Robison, 58 "proficient at tennis", and Admiral Hughes, 59, "a fire eater of a friendly sort", will enjoy halcyon days...
...investors get real value for their money, and continues for a certain period there- after until the crop of hopeful lambs begins to thin out. Only these who own no Florida land and have no intensions of so doing can judge the outcome dispassionately, and even then there is apt to be somewhat of an attitude of "sour grapes...