Word: aptness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...curly-maned old lion could never have dreamed it, but his kind of painting, which put ideas ahead of emotions, was on the verge of obscurity for a century or more. The romantic French masters who followed him, from Courbet and Delacroix on, were apt to consider David more of a pedant than a painter-and a passionless clod to boot. They were wrong, as a huge David exhibition, the biggest showing of his work ever held, proved last week in Paris...
...Ceylon. "The last we saw of India . . . was a wizened beggar signaling us frantically for baksheesh. When none was forthcoming, he threw aside his servile manner and, bounding beside our porthole, dynamically thumbed his nose at us until we outdistanced him. It was a touching, and somehow an apt, symbol of the amity between our two great nations...
...efforts to attract further industries to Cincinnati ... we are pointing out the many advantages Cincinnati has to offer to new industries and new people who are about to locate here, and naturally we feel that any such statement in a magazine with the broad circulation TIME has is very apt to have a detrimental effect in this campaign...
...group of leftists, he made a brief protest and then sat silently by. Some of the victims were his close associates.When he made charges unsubstantiated by fact against the atomic-energy policy of Bernard Baruch, he first promised Baruch a retraction, then vanished ignominiously. In crises he is apt to be simply in absentia. If his hodgepodge party breaks up he may stay with it officially but spiritually go elsewhere...
...behaves reasonably again, but in a novel manner. From the leading edge of the wing, two intense sound waves flare off like the bow waves of a boat. Two more flare off from the trailing edge. If the moving object has any irregularities or sharp curves, these are apt to trail their sound waves...