Word: prone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...member of a church, sent out by a church, the missionary is prone to conceive his task as primarily that of promoting this organization. His Board, as a rule, embodies and intensifies this conception; and the missionary is likely to be dominated by the expectations of his Board. . . . The trail of self-interest within the organization lies like the trail of the serpent over the missions of Asia within our purview...
...matters like this Wall Street is prone to rely heavily upon the famed doctrine of Caveat Emptor ("Let the buyer beware"). On the other hand the investing public, as represented by their District Attorneys, like to put the blame for any loss on the financial go-between...
...indications during August had been translated into definite figures by last week. General Motors reported that during August its dealers sold 13.3% more cars to customers than in July. But, overstocked, they had bought fewer from GM. Smaller companies also reported that August had shown a gain. Bulls were prone to say that the first half of August had been bad, that the gains resulted from a whizzbang finish which may carry into September. They took cheer from the knowledge that the average automobile bouncing along the highway today is four years...
...practices in Jamaica, L. I. His detective story is one of the first by a Negro and with an all-Negro cast Negroes are suitable for mystery stories because they are hard to see in the dark and because white folk, not knowing much about them, believe them primitively prone to violence. Author Fisher writes much better than most white fictioneers. One of the things that makes his book unusual is highly appropriate local color about Harlem. Bubber Brown and Jinx Jenkins are as funny as Amos & Andy. Says Bubber: ''You won't find nobody black as me that...
...large utility issues. Each of the issues ($30.000,000 in Consolidated Gas Co., $10,000,000 in Brooklyn Union Gas Co., $25,000,000 in Edison Electric Illuminating Co. of Boston) sold well. An offering of $7,500,000 in Connecticut Light & Power followed quickly. But some observers were prone to temper their optimism. Edison Electric will not need the new funds until October when a $20,000,000 note issue matures. It seemed that the company's bankers, First National Bank of Boston, would not have set about raising the money last week had they not expected higher...