Word: apts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...agriculturalists, Dr. Davidson-who is too busy to farm himself-says that most are immigrant Jews, most come from trades such as the needle and fur, most seek farms and remain on them because farming is a peaceful way of life. Because they are city-bred, Jewish farmers are apt to have more plumbing, electricity, furnaces, radios, telephones than the average U. S. farmer...
...lightning; Brit Hadden its thunder. Young Editor Hadden, black-haired, bushy-browed and so nervous that he never sat still, always scowled at copy, generally from beneath a green eyeshade. Vexed by a stupid blunder* he would growl out loud, sometimes stamp his feet. Pleased by an apt phrase, he would vent a guffaw that apprised TIME'S writers that a new phrase had been canonized in TIME style. Disdainful of "gumchewers," he always chewed gum. Contemptuous of dead literature, he constantly held up Homer† as an example to TIME'S staff. Impatient of slow waiters...
According to the guide, all Harvard men are not as desirable as the best of them, for there is another species "not the type one is apt to meet on a southern cruise," who is not so much the ladies' man, and who lacks the romantic danger of the others...
Veteran Tom Bolles advised the Yardlings to take a look at the Varsity and remember the 1940 Olympics. "The bulk of next year's Varsity is very apt to be composed of Sophomores'," he said...
This advice is, of course, to: 1) lower tariff walls; 2) abolish quota restrictions; 3) stabilize currencies; 4) restore freedom of exchanges; 5) balance budgets. Having dropped in at the White House and made the rounds of Europe, M. van Zeeland picked five nations as the Great Powers most apt to take what he considers the standard brands of good advice...