Word: prone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...will of a single man. Cortez emerges from the past as a typical Renaissance captain, like the condottiere of Italy, only transplanted into the romantic regions of the New World. Always the hardy soldier, daring and resourceful, he never shirked from deception, cruelty, or pillage. Too often people are prone to see only the gallantry of the Conquistador, without realizing the wreckage he brought upon the beautiful city of Mexico, surrounded by a broad lake filled with floating gardens and stocked with the glorious achievements of Indian art. If the Aztec religion demanded the palpitating hearts of its victims...
Followers of lovable, philosophical, hell-raising Skippy, comic-strip youngster, are prone to think of his creator as somewhat like Skippy's own comic-strip father. By that token, Cartoonist Percy Leo Crosby might be a tall, gentle, softspoken man with dark hair and a cropped moustache. Readers with that misconception of Cartoonist Crosby took something of a jolt last week when they saw in the New York World a full page of anti-Prohibition tirade headed: "This Space Bought by Percy Crosby Because He Believes That Any Issue, Affecting the Welfare of the Nation, Should Never Be Straddled...
...sometimes occurs at examinations? On occasions it has been necessary to employ the covers of the blue books and other means of filling out the lack of material with which to complete a paper. Memorial Hall seems to be the place where the supply of blue books is most prone to fall. Perhaps the fact that examinations in large courses are held there is largely responsible for the insufficiency which sometimes occurs. That, however, does not mitigate the annoyance. (Name withheld by request...
...conditions which exist there have been grossly exaggerated in the outside world. He found the lumbermen comparatively well equipped in food, camps, clothes, and medical service. Furthermore Mr. Stewart considered that any deficiencies could well be laid to the faculty organization of the Soviet officials, who are more prone to theory than to actualities...
...cultural effects arising from study abroad as a supplement to work done in American schools and colleges cannot readily be overstated. Whereas the large European Universities as Geneva and the Sorbonne in Paris have a large percentage of foreigners in their student enrollment, the Universities of America are prone to be localized and essentially nationalistic in outlook. Furthermore few have the opportunity of associating with European students here, as they are so thinly scattered throughout the country...