Word: aptness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...note of high Victorian principle and good will Koki Hirota announced: "In Europe and America there are some who are apt to entertain misgivings regarding Japanese intentions, as though she were trying to close China's door and expel the interests of the powers from China. . . . Not only will Japan respect to the fullest extent rights and interest of the powers in the occupied areas but she is prepared for the purpose of promoting welfare of the Chinese people to leave the door wide open to all powers and to welcome their cultural and economic co-operation there...
Former champ Mitchell, contacted last night said that he would make a come-back after mid-years. "And I won't stop at 20," he said. "It's more apt...
When a Harvard man goes home, he is apt to hang his hat in any one of 44 foreign countries, according to a report released yesterday tabulating the geographical representation among the University's 8,289 students...
...English courses the mark is determined by the end impression, not by the perfection of all the answers, so it is to the student's advantage that his name be known to the correcter. But in large courses in other fields where examinations are not marked blindly there is apt to exist injustice; knowing the owner of a paper, an instructor is influenced by personal feeling. At all times, however, a grade is subject to the correcter's whim and mood of the moment...
...basis of the pamphlet are Professor Chafce's articles in the CRIMSON last November discussing the legal aspects of the Narragansett Park mix-up. These articles have been expanded considerably, packed between a clarifying introduction and a voluminous set of appendices, and salted down with a fistfulls of apt quotations. As an Added Feature there is a photostat of the famous "Star Tribune" asserting Governor Quinn to be in an insane asylum and (for the kiddies) lots of pictures of soldiers and horses...