Word: afoul
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...approaching examinations. He rents a floor in a dingy building directly across from the freshman dormitories, hires 21 assistants, tutors about 500 students a year. Rates are $4 an hour for private work, $2.50 for class reviews. Tutor Wolff's proudest boasts are that he has never run afoul of University Hall, that he can tutor a great number of advanced courses himself, that he numbers among his clients Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr., and his brother John...
...England again. Besides his job as ship's doctor he had the un-naval post of naturalist, and intended to keep a weather eye out for Mollusca, Acalephae, Cirripedia, epizoa, Radiata and such. He rigged up a home-made tow-net to snare his specimens, soon ran afoul of the navigation officers, who complained that the net slowed the ship's way, took to dumping his catch overboard when his back was turned. As the long voyage wore on, Huxley found that such setbacks, like the difficulty of peering through his microscope in heavy weather or keeping...
...Ledger, she achieved another resounding scoop by interviewing ex-Emperor Karl of Austria at the climax of his second attempt to regain the Hapsburg throne in 1922. By 1924 she was chief of the Public Ledger-New York Evening Post bureau in Berlin, where her liberal tendencies later ran afoul of the Nazi movement (TIME, Sept. 3, 1934). With this job the first stage of Dorothy Thompson's journalistic career was complete. In 1928 she was ready to marry Nobel-Prizewinning Novelist Sinclair Lewis...
...remains unsettled. There is no reason why a concentrator in History, Government, or Economics should not find Sociology A more valuable than either of the present required elementary courses, or even determine that a sociology correlation is more desirable than any other. Such students, none the less, run afoul the somewhat insolent self-sufficiency of the "Holy Trinity". The inescapable conclusion is that the whole value of having this Division is questionable, if it means the practical exclusion of Sociology...
...last week the Jardine policy had resulted in the dismissal of three members of the faculty and President Jardine had run afoul of the American Association of University Professors. The A. A. U. P. had sent its Committee A and Committee A reported that Mr. Jardine apparently believed that Wichita culture was to be found chiefly in the offices of downtown businessmen. In explaining his reasons for dismissing two of the three professors, President Jardine told the committee that, besides being incompetent, the pair failed to make friends among influential Wichitans. The university regarded the third man with disfavor...