Word: aptness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ragsdale works out of TIME'S Washington office, but because of his rough and tumble travel experiences he is apt to be ordered anywhere. Educated at the University of Washington and at the Sorbonne, he has been a professional fighter, a logger, an oil driller, an extra in the Ballet Russe, a stevedore in Alaska, a publicity man for a symphony orchestra -and he sailed in the fo'c'sle to South America, the Caribbean, Europe and the Orient...
Tricky Decoration. The principles of camouflage have often been traced, by theorists, back to protective coloration by which nature conceals animals. But much of today's camouflage finds a more apt ancestry in the Renaissance art of trompe l'oeil ("fool the eye") with which tricky 16th-Century artists painted in nonexistent bookcases, windows, benches and tables so naturally that they looked like the real thing. Since modern rear-area camouflage produces many of its disguises with dummy structures and elaborately built alterations rather than with paint, camouflage has become as much the province of engineers...
...officers who play the game, they must regard handball not only as one of the best conditioners but definitely a stimulus of the competitive instinct upon which the generalship of the military strategist depends. Those who have seen Unlucky Joe Platak defend his title will appreciate TIME'S apt comparison to Joe Louis. Both are veritible tigers of energy and courage. Perhaps TIME'S article will get Unlucky Joe out of the Great Lakes scullery and place him in a service commensurate with his exceptional talents...
People who look at her portraits are apt to find themselves disconcertingly in the picture, by reflection. A well-grounded, competent artist in her own right, Mrs. Mullen concedes with reluctance that her material is now matériel. She says sadly: "If people would realize that a sheet of 10-gauge steel 6 by 18 ft. would only make one and one-half inches of battleship plate, and even then it's too thin...
...cafeterias, kitchens, lunch stands, etc., should be under plant management and run on a nonprofit, non-loss basis. . . . Cafeterias, rolling kitchens, or lunch stands operated by concessionaires . . . [are] generally less satisfactory than man-agement-owned cafeterias." Reason: "Candies, pies, cakes and soft drinks are apt to constitute too great a proportion of their stock...