Word: apts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...saluted as the Conqueror of Cancer, had already taken care to incorporate the Hendry Connell Research Foundation, Ltd. (capital, $50,000) to keep benign control of his system of treatment. Previously he had patented the manufacture of the hypodermic solution he uses and taken a copyright on Ensol, his apt name for the solution...
There is no more sensitive actress in Hollywood than Miss Hepburn, and her portrayal of Alice Adams is an apt do menstruation of this ability to reflect subtle shades of feeling. Surrounded by an able cast she gets off a couple of scenes that are quite unforgettable...
...members of the Book-of-the-Month Club were able to discover for themselves that Seven Pillars of Wisdom belongs in the first rank of personal accounts of the War. If they expected sensational tittle-tattle that would justify the former price and rarity of the book, they were apt to be disappointed. If they were content with a long, careful record of a particularly diffuse type of warfare, written by a sensitive, philosophical Englishman who had exceptional opportunities to observe it, they found Seven Pillars of Wisdom a rewarding study. In it brisk and tumultuous accounts of battles...
...Some of these boys were "non-churchgoers" before enrolling. Most of the chaplains I know try to make their sermons so interesting and their church services so attractive that the boys hate to stay away. They feel that they are missing something. Of course in every camp we are apt to find someone who has a "crossed-wire" on the subject of religion, politics, etc. I hope that your readers remember that two swallows don't make a summer and that one fanatic doesn't represent the religious reaction of the entire camp personnel...
...Almost the entire British submarine fleet had been thrown into the Mediterranean and such craft, notoriously cranky, are apt to rise by accident in such fashion as to be crushed by a surface ship. Suppose an Italian cruiser thus "ran down" a British submarine...