Word: prone
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wide margin. Yale has defeated Army, Princeton and Dartmouth, three of the strongest teams in the East. Harvard, has had but one outstanding victory to its credit, that over Indians, but has fallen before Purdue, Pennsylvania and Dartmouth by no uncertain margins. On paper, as the sporting fraternity is prone to express...
...another one of those frequent cases when Burn's famous works about the plans of mice and men holds true. Some will of course say that the Vagabond has been restricting himself solely to intellectual pursuits to ward off the wrath of those whose thunder bolts are so prone to descend upon the poor benighted during the dreary hours of November examinations. That, indeed, is not the case-and with a weekend directly upon us need anyone be important and enquire further...
...supressed excitement; Ukrainians, more pallid than ever, glanced nervously through their narrow eyes. Maitre Torres, aiming at a chair, pulled the trigger?there was a dull click, followed by sighs of relief. He was attempting to prove that M. Schwartzbard could not have shot Simon Petlura as he lay , prone on the ground...
Without realizing it, men-in-the-street are prone to think of the Socialist nebula as a misty organism of a more or less reddish hue, with parties and particles, creeds, organs, persons and programs whirling round & round, and getting nowhere except in Soviet Russia, which is east of Europe and therefore does not count. Red footstools, red neckties, intentionally crude cartoons, stuffy parlors and garrets, late hours, morose arguments, "long-haired men and short-haired women," dirty fingernails and a strange courage, are among the peculiar properties of Socialism...
...populated square miles. School roofs flew. A home for crippled children and a whole street of modest dwellings were laid open like dolls' houses, the walls being sucked off outwards by the tornadic vacuum. Steeples crashed, autos slid, trees swept by, scantlings whizzed, people who failed to lie prone were knocked so and dragged along...