Word: prone
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Expectant mothers should beware of obstetricians who are too prone to caesarean operations (removal of the baby by abdominal incision). Caesareans are spectacular operations, make surgeons feel proud, but they are dangerous and in 95%, of deliveries a skilled obstetrician need only help Nature...
...probably worthwhile for the summer school student, prone to behind-the-napkin whispering at the Union on the slowness of service and lack of desert-talent among the cook-force, to ponder on these early battles in the cause of wholesome, 100-percent edible eatables. The first head of the college, the wicked Mr. Eaton mentioned last time, fed his long-suffering students, according to contemporary accounts, "hasty pudding with goat's dung in it, and mackerel served with their guts in them." Before skipping this plainspoken, if indelicate piece of seventeenth-century realism the early prevalence of Hasty pudding...
Adding to its laurels, the Harvard File Club decisively defeated the Boston College sharpshooters, 546-523 at the range of the Walnut Hill Rifle Club in Woburn yesterday afternoon. The course consisted of ten shots prone, ten shots offhand and five shots sitting for a possible 125 points. The day's scores were: For Harvard: Captain J. A. Booth '33, 117; F. H. Poor '34, 109; David Weld '34, 108; Fisher Howe, III '35, 106; Eugene DuBois '33, 106. For Boston: Jansen, 108; Jones, 105; C. Hagen, 105; Mc-Laughlin, 103; Shine, 102. Early in the season B. C. defeated...
...article in particular, carries on, in the April issue, the reputation of this magazine for sanity and catholicity of ideas. Claude Fuess, acting headmaster of Andover, writes on "The Promise of Progressive Education" with an impartiality and reflectiveness quite unusual in a subject prone to more dogmatism than many legislative programs. The theory of "play, not work" in education, which is most applicable to pre-adolescent children, is shown to be acceptable to the more traditional schools, where there is not as hide-bound an attitude as is usually thought, but where the curriculum of "projects" is often questioned...
...more energy when he works than do his legs when he exercises outdoors; blood flows through the brain arteries faster than through any part of the body except the eye retina; the pressure of cerebrospinal fluid on the brain is five or six times greater when a man lies prone than when he stands upright; "it seems probable that the brain has a rather high metabolism when compared to other organs or to the body as a whole...