Word: apts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thing as a nervous breakdown. But when a successful businessman, after meeting a series of setbacks, develops crotchets and then suddenly goes to pieces, even his physician will call his condition a nervous breakdown. Technically the businessman is suffering from a neurosis. He is not mad. Nor is he apt to go insane. His inability to cope with people and circumstances has thrown him into a complex mental-emotional turmoil and shaken his entire personality. With a patient, learned psychiatrist as his guide he may clamber out of the debacle and regain a stout hold on life. But the paths...
...frail, goateed President William Preston Few, who can thank "Buck" Duke for blowing up his tiny Trinity College into big Duke University. Snapped grateful President Few: "The glory of this university is that it is built in accordance with carefully made plans. These, in all essentials, are apt to be followed to the end. I have a profound appreciation of what Mr. Duke has striven to do for Education and Humanity, and I would do honor to his good deeds in any way, however conspicuous...
Because the distinction between false advertising and legitimate puffing of one's wares is often apt to be fine, two paragraphs of the proposed law last week caused close trade scrutiny. They were...
Canton, because it is the farthest metropolis on the China coast from Japan and therefore least apt to be attacked, has been loudly, blatantly anti-Japanese. If even Canton is wavering, Japanese diplomacy could chalk up a major victory last week in Nanking, the "Capital of China" which strongly rules Central China, preponderates in the North and makes noises intended to sound like rule in the South...
Latest reports from England have Babe Ruth progressing rapidly in John Bull's national game of cricket. The coach who has taken him in hand describes him as one of his most apt pupils and Lou Gehrig who returned this week said that when he left him the Babe "was knocking a cricket ball out of the grounds against the best bowling or pitching in England...