Word: aptness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lower of these benches sit the assembly's presiding officers, behind and above them are the representatives of the four occupying powers. Perhaps the suggestion of both classroom and courtroom is apt. For here, Berlin's people are expected to learn the ways of democracy, and here the Big Four of World War II are supposed to sit in solemn judgment on their efforts. But, this week, it was difficult to tell who was judge, who the accused...
...other organizations such as the International Union of Students and the World Student Service Fund before they are even out of the toddling stage. Then before, during, and after the Regional Conference they must also get in and paddle around with all the major and touchy issues that are apt to raise their heads at the Madison convention. When such an issue is brought up for discussion the local delegates should be prepared to plunge into the fray with as much knowledge and previously decided policy as any of the delegates there...
TIME'S human touch last summer in presenting Mormon Leader Smith as "slyly popping bonbons into his mouth" drew apt approval in Letters. Now in a single issue [March 29] we find Music-Maestro Ormandy and Ball-Bingler Crosby popping peppermint and peanuts into their mouths...
...apt to be flashy in his conducting ("Was that the Beethoven Eighth? demanded one Proper Bostonian when Münch guest-conducted in Boston last year, "or the Battle of Waterloo?"). But when he is at his best, Bostonians will find the same electric brilliance and showy skill to which Koussevitzky has accustomed them...
...R.E.G. Armattoe, of Londonderry, Northern Ireland, whose paper was read to the meeting, is a student of human hairiness, which varies, he said, with geography and intellect. For some undetermined reason, the most intellectual men are apt to be the baldest. Dr. Armattoe attended the 1947 meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science at Dundee, Scotland, and found that 55% of the male delegates showed "central baldness" and 22% "frontal baldness." Swedish intellectuals were found to be in the most desperate shape: 70% of them are bald before they are 40. In Switzerland the incidence of intellectual...