Word: prone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reform as the realignment of the municipal bureaucracy, to which Major LaGuardia is pledged, will sour the patronage list and antagonize the Republican machine. The illuminati will support it, but an examination of Mr. Walter Fisher's Chicago reform league would indicate that even an organized elite is extremely prone to diffusion, so that it is not a very significant help in a political struggle, where a pachydermatous hide is the greatest single asset, and where means must sometimes yield to ends...
With the decline of the emphasis put on Latin and Greek in the preparatory schools the Freshman has been increasingly prone to begin college with little or no knowledge of the Classics. If he then feels this gap in his knowledge and desires to remedy it, he discovers that in order to do so he must go through the lengthy process of learning Latin and Greek, must, in fact, devote a considerable portion of his college career to it. This, of course, is sufficient to deter most students, and cause them to fall back upon the unsatisfactory plan of attempting...
...part of a monistic universe, but as a unique being, intelligent and responsible, able to discover right ways with his reason and able to follow them with his will. It is equally opposed to idealistic and materialistic unity. It may be pessimistic, in reflecting that man is prone to evil from his youth, but it is the opposite of fatalism. It may be guardedly optimistic, in finding that the intellectually discovered key to the good life is easily used by the will, but it is equally the opposite of that Rousseauian naturalistic optimism, that Alice-in-Wonderland adventure...
...morning's Press is reprinted as a reprimand to those adolescents who are prone to regard Boston journals as witless panders to the rabble. In its blissful if irritating myopia, youth can scarcely appreciate the ripe sagacity which directs the composition of news and editorials in the great world. But here the adolescent is appealed to in familiar terms. Only the purposeful blind can fail to detect in this piece that genteel sense of humor, that same mellow perspective which graced the manipulation of Captain Armstrong's publicity...
...Whistler-A boy in Vermont, accustomed to working alone, was so prone to whistling, that, as soon as he was by himself, he un- consciously commenced. When asleep, the muscles of his mouth, chest, and lungs were so completely concatenated in the association, he whistled with astonishing shrillness. A pale countenance, loss of appetite, and almost total prostration of strength, convinced his mother it would end in death, if not speedily overcome, which was accomplished by placing him in the society of another boy, who had orders to give him a blow as soon as he began to whistle...