Word: apts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Yesterday the bureau was termed "rah, rah," by the dean of records, who did not want his name to be used. He refused the students permission to use their rooms as offices for the business since Harvard buildings are tax-free, and business men in the Square are apt to object if business is transacted in rooms which are not taxable. Permission to name the budding girl-securing business the Harvard Date Bureau was also refused by the same dean...
Electric lights failed when the current went off, and thus you were just the tools of Mr. Insull or Mr. Hopson. The bigger and shinier and faster you automobile was the more apt you were to get bamped off unpleasantly. A medieval arquebus was much more decent. It was all a lot of rot--modern existence. I was insistent. I was almost a Miniver Cheevy...
...That we lived and ate and sang and suffered and died and we had better do them all gracefully and how much more gracefully they did them way back then. Then we seemed to progress only and never discovered anything new, and what we did discover was apt to boomerang back on us any minute like instant communication and aeroplanes and T.N.T. That anybody was a sucker to be optimistic like Browning. That science was merely building up to a great big let-down when came the Jeansian Millenium, that everything new that came out was a new responsibility...
Hills around Groton provide good open slopes within an hour's drive of Cambridge. The golf course and near-by slopes are apt to be crowded but the opportunity to try your turns on good conditions is the best within striking distance...
...notice produce an exhibition of Renoir, Monet, Degas or the rest, to knock out the public's eye. At long intervals the partners remember their duty to living art, introduce a new talent. They seldom take much of a chance. Any painter sponsored by cautious Durand-Ruel is apt to have enduring ability, and their patronage launches him convincingly. Last week this distinguished firm was showing for the second time in seven years the works of a youthful Frenchman named William Malherbe. Critics immediately wrote him down as a talent to watch...