Word: prone
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...before the game was fast all through, both teams playing a lively offense. The Harvard players were prone to take shots from the middle of the floor, again, and they netted many of their points by accurate shooting in this...
...Pittsburgh End Joe Donchess lay prone on Waynesburg's goal line, he lifted his arms as if by accident and found between them a pass that was soon forgotten in his team's scarcely hindered scoring. Pittsburgh 53, Waynesburg...
...heretofore been largely overlooked either through carelessness or through failure to appreciate a responsibility toward the large body of undergraduates in whose interests such services are performed. The average student who wearily wends his way through lines of registration desks, CRIMSON and Lampoon agents, laundry or pressing solicitors, is prone to overlook the full significance of the cash contribution or pledge filled out in impatient anticipation of escaping the toils of enrolment...
...deviate from the normal. In deviation there is hope, strength, unique value. Much of the most important work of the world has been done by men who have paid the penalty for their achievements in terms of their handicaps. Men are more susceptible to neurasthenia than women, women more prone to hysteria...
...chief churches.* Over the Bridal Door of fashionable St. Thomas he placed two lovers' knots in Gothic tracery, one of them cleverly modeled to reveal a dollar sign. Great was the resulting furor. Sedate parishioners still deny that the sign is there. Architect Goodhue was mercurial, head strong, prone to sudden anger but fundamentally affectionate, modest, shy. His beliefs were unorthodox, his moral scruples of painful intensity. His ashes now rest in a magnificent tomb in the Chapel of the Intercession. On the surface carved in bas-relief by Lee Lawrie is his image lying in state like...