Word: aptness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From what in Leningrad corresponds to Washington's U. S. Bureau of Standards, last week came a method of determining where lightning is apt to strike. A bolt jumps from a cloud to earth when the atmospheric electrical tension becomes stronger than the resistance of the air between. The air resistance depends upon its ionization, and the ionization-Professor L. N. Bogoiavlensky assumes-depends on buried radioactive rocks and the electro-conductivity of the earth above. Hence he and his assistants go about with meters to register such radio-activity and electro-conductivity...
...mean she doesn't care just about dancing and having a good time every night. We talked it all over. It's sort of hard to explain, but what I mean is even when you feel pretty serious about a girl, you're apt not to think much about the future. That's why we talked it all over, I mean...
...take along a lunch and be left to spend the day on Governor's Island or Peddockls, Governor's Island has the ruins of old Fort Winthrop, and is large and explorable but a trifle grubby; Peddock's is way down near Hull. These islands, however, are apt to be crowded on a weekend...
...Amadeo Peter Giannini who later ousted him as head of famed Transamerica Corp. As novices in K. L. they can, however, tell the Senate little, though they know well the general business of the house they serve, a house that stands next to Morgan in reputation but that is apt to tackle different jobs...
...Jameson belongs to a hard-hit generation (she calls it "the Class of 1914") and she comes from hard-bitten Yorkshire. The combination, as readers of her novels will recognize, is not one that makes for softness or cares about charm. Good if somewhat angrily honest, her stories are apt to be bitter to palates accustomed to a sugaring of the pill. In No Time Like the Present, half autobiography and half indictment of a civilization that returns to war like a dog to its vomit, there is less sugaring than ever, more anger than usual, and the same hard...