Word: aptness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...playing golf I have often noticed that the best players seem to have the best luck. Their balls miss sand traps by inches, roll up on the green and stop near the hole; where others (mine) are apt to trickle into the pit or land short of the green by a few inches...
...Probably the most useful tool for research since the discovery of the microscope" was described in detail last week by Dr. Joseph G. Hamilton of the University of California. The tool he referred to is the use of radioactive elements, and his comparison was apt. Whereas the microscope makes visible aspects of living tissue which cannot be seen with the naked eye, the use of radioactive elements as tracers makes it possible to learn what becomes of elements taken into a living organism as food, to study the intricate mechanics of metabolism in living plants and animals...
Like A. & P., Safeway roasts its own coffee, etc., but is more earnest in its effort to give nationally advertised brands an even break. And Safeway's profit margins are apt to be more nearly uniform than A. & P.'s. Warren's principle: "When you get wide spreads you are vulnerable. That is why Safeway does not believe in making too much profit on any one thing...
...Southern poor people is not to repeal the poll tax, but to raise their standard of living and to educate them. This is a slow task, but a far wiser and safer method than giving a vote immediately to ten million people who in their ignorance are more apt to use it to subvert than to uphold constitutional government. Very sincerely yours, Laurence Davis...
...Congressmen were ready to chew: the fact that the Government, while ready to ask citizens for sacrifices, was not yet ready to make any sacrifices of its own. The budget of many a department for 1942 had been ostentatiously pared -about as deeply as a man is apt to pare his fingernails. Although labor shortages have begun to appear in many an industry, the Administration had made no commitments to reduce relief expenditures, is still spending for relief at the rate of about $100,000,000 a month ($375,000,000 for March, April, May and June). Although farm prices...