Word: aptness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Journals of Lewis and Clark. It is clear that he was acquainted with it because he has quoted passages from it several times although their dignified and flowing style makes the elementary rhetorical devices of Wilson appear to be feeble efforts of a grammar school debater. The reader is apt to find tedious a constant repetition of "and now, by God, he was ready. . . ." "but, by God, he was . . ." and in the same category may well be placed the omnipresent references to the shining eyes and wagging tail of Brewster, the canine mascot of the expedition, as he scampered gaily...
...McDuffie Bill provides that these Army bases be relinquished and that the future status of the naval bases be the subject for discussion between the Philippine and American governments promptly following the Bill's ratification. This seems another bilious case of Congressional fence-sitting. Foreign powers will make apt mention of Manchukuo when the U. S. A. grants the Philippines independence and reserves for itself naval and coaling stations. The Filipinos appear to have hopes that future negotiations will eventually do away with these vestiges of our imperialism, but the reservations lend an air of duplicity to the whole proceeding...
...theatrical was his appearance, so unbelievable was his career that simple domestic folk are apt to think that Gregory Rasputin never really existed. He did. There are many people living who knew him well...
...smoked from his lodge, or shot except when found alive in a trap. But the wise trapper, setting his trap a little back from the water's edge, weights it with a heavy stone to drag the struggling captive to quick death by drowning. Otherwise he is apt to find only a torn leg in his trap. Sensitive trappers, if they can afford it, use the Bailey live beaver trap, a hinged, circular device which lies flat, snaps closed when a beaver touches its trigger (see cut, p. 32). Best bait is a fresh aspen limb fastened just behind...
...twenty-five or over. In a section of over twenty-five, adequate discussion and frequent recitation are virtually impossible. At a time when the student is making the transition from the highly individual classroom instruction of prep school to the personal contact afforded by the tutorial conferences, he is apt to be lost in the shuffle and consequently to have difficulty in apprehending the aims of tutorial work and the best methods for obtaining from it the maximum of value...