Word: apts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...recently came across in my reading (Nathaniel Hawthorne's Notes) the following paragraph which struck me as being so apt a statement of the Magazine TIME'S principles that it might almost be adopted as a slogan...
Career: Homer Truett Bone is a round-shouldered, kindly little man with a gloomy viewpoint. In discussing the state of the world, he is apt to remark: "This is a dark and sombre picture." Politicians, whose squabbling Homer Bone heartily dislikes, do not understand why Bone, of all men, should be afflicted by melancholy. Indisputably his State's most popular politician, he amassed 243,682 votes in the Democratic primary this year to 196,876 for all his opponents. He spends no money in the primary, except for gas and oil, and has just returned a $500 check from...
When Harvard men hit the bottle, its apt to contain either Scotch or that old demon Rum, according to the liquor interests in Harvard Square and vicinity, which comprise an industry closely rivaling the tutoring schools in extent...
Controversies over neutral rights and the mutual recrimination by newspapers in both countries were the two principal sources of ill feeling, he said. "Seward with an eye on the Irish vote and an ignorance of international law was apt to overplay his hand and mingle well founded protests at British violations with unjustified demands for concessions." Both nations realized that their actions would establish precedents for later diplomacy...
...People are apt to confuse the Houses and intramural programs," Adolf W. Samborski, Director of Intramural Athletics, said yesterday, pointing out that only about half of those participating in his extensive program last year were playing on House teams...