Word: prone
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that in their hope, college presidents are too prone to reach their goals in imagination. But it might also be said that, discouraged with failures they would underestimate the religious attitudes of their students. One may safely take their can did optimism as a taken both that irreligious conduct in students does not indicate immoral propensities and that the attitude of the average college president is rather more sympathetic than...
...section, Quiz, in my opinion easily doubles the value of TIME as a magazine of information. Many of us humans are too prone when reading to drift at random through a congeries of facts without relating them to matter already assimilated. Hence we forget what we read. The anticipation of a question upon what is read evokes just enough effort to effect such a relation or coordination, and the fact sticks−we have learned...
Many Harvard graduates are prone to take for granted that the Harvard given them by heritage will likewise persist in the future through some invisible power. That will depend upon Harvard...
Treatment and prevention: Abundant sleep; open air exercise (horseback riding and aquatic sports before sailing are recommended); proper bowel elimination; diet restricted to such foods as appeal. For vomiting in excess: rest; the prone position. "Iced brandy, champagne or strong coffee may be given through a drinking tube, but if nausea reasserts itself it is best to continue the administration of [certain drugs...
...period, neither team risking a decisive rally. Finally the Tigers descended on masse, and a scrimmage with several men on the ice resulted as Cumings blocked Davis' hard drive. The puck trickled out to the boards, and while the Nassau forwards were searching for the rubber under Harvard's prone sentinel, Scott dashed up the right lane, swerved pass Wilkinson, and passed Cole-brook to put the Crimson ahead...