Word: aptness
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...Malaya and Singapore today, a mem-sahib is more apt to spend her day screaming at the amah, doing the housework herself, or else trying to poach the perfect gem who works for the Arbuthnots. For the old-style amahs, whose white tunics, black silk pajama trousers and smoothly braided hair made them look like pigtailed penguins, belong to a dying race...
Their places are being taken by a new generation of flibbertigibbets whose minds are apt to be more on men than helping the "mem." Mostly Malayan or Indian girls, with a sprinkling of untrained Chinese, they are prettier and more sophisticated than their forebears -and, say their mems, often downright insolent. For their part, the maids complain bitterly that the rapidly expanding Malayan middle class is even more tyrannical than the bossiest Britons...
...seems to me that instead of using a "curious choice of words," Senator Morton [Aug. 16] was making an apt allusion to a well-known Shakespearean quotation from Hamlet...
WEEK in and week out, our correspondents see a lot of history being made; and having filed their stories to TIME, they are apt to continue thinking about their subject. Many of their choicest anecdotes, their best quotes and their ideas on the subject will have appeared in the magazine, but they also know that a cumulative survey of the events they have lived with and reflected upon will have its own special appeal. And so these trained observers, on their own time or on leave of absence, sit down to write correspondents' books, those valuable first steps into...
...family with a medium-sized car, a refrigerator, a stove and a washing machine is apt to own about 2,500 Ibs. of steel. But the 1,100-Ib. saturation figure (which also includes the steel in the building a man works in, the bridge he crosses, the commuter train he rides in) is reached by dividing all the steel purchased in a nation each year by the entire population...