Word: prone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...drouth regions are concerned," he thundered, "no new principle is presented to the American people. . . . Everyone concedes that the conditions in the South are due to what we are prone to call an Act of God. The people . . . have been visited by a drouth which has been as devastating, as cruel and as remorseless as a flood or an earthquake...
Yale has been less prone to liberalize her curriculum than her contemporaries in the East. Whereas Harvard, Princeton and Dartmouth have long since released capable students from compulsory class attendance and permitted wide freedom in choice of courses, Yale has stood pat to such a point that her onetime (1909-27) Dean Frederick Scheetz Jones was able once to boom forth: "So long as I am here we will never give up the Latin or Greek requirement for a degree in Yale College...
...goes credit for having revived wrestling, long discredited by its reputation as an incurably crooked sport, as a big money-maker in eastern cities.* It is still maintained by experts, and borne out in college wrestling, that when wrestlers are sincere they immediately fall to the mat and lie prone, grunting, until one succumbs from fatigue. No matter what can be said for its spirit, such sincerity is exceedingly weak as entertainment...
Here is a question for enthusiastic people, prone to ethical speculation. What is more fundamental is that the attacker takes a grossly exaggerated position in regard to the importance of these bulletins in the market collapse and industrial depression. This can be left to the economists...
Feature of the third corrida of the season at the Comayaguela Fair, 50 mi. from Tegucigalpa was the appearance of one Ramiro Dominguez, second-rate Mexican matador. Major Geyer attended in a ringside seat. Attempting to execute a difficult passade, Matador Dominguez became entangled in his cape, slipped, fell prone before the charging animal. Without an instant's hesitation Major Geyer drew his service pistol, dropped the bull with a single bullet between the eyes. The air was rent with cheers for quickwitted Tauricide Geyer, mingled with boos for slovenly Tauromach Dominguez...