Word: averted
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...experience having just as good an opportunity to make good as others. Men should have for equipment the following articles: sweaters, shoes, hat, towels, rowing pants, long drawers, and socks. Lockers may be engaged at any time at the boat house. Men are urged to get them immediately to avert any confusion on Wednesday...
...principle of non-resistance so far as to reduce this country to the condition of china, a prey to the foreign spoiler. Between national subjection or humiliation and war they would not hesitate. Nor are they, with few exceptions, unwilling to adopt such means as may be necessary to avert wars, or to reduce their frequency--even though the means were necessary to attain the end. To such people, those who advocate seriously any rational means of advancing the cause of universal peace can appeal with confidence of a respectful hearing...
...likely to quarrel with us if we are well able to defend ourselves. Few again, if any, of these men want to increase our military forces in order to go to war; and they are, no doubt, right that a reasonable state of preparation is far more likely to avert than to precipitate hostilities. There is no danger of our becoming a military people embarked upon the career of conquest. But perhaps these men do not fully appreciate the importance to us of preventing wars elsewhere; of using our own preparedness as part of a larger plan of policing...
...until the end of the last quarter, when Princeton recovered a Williams' fumble on the latter's 16-yard line, that her backfield had the power to push the ball across the line for a touchdown. Law, amid breathless excitement, succeeded in gaining the point necessary to avert defeat...
...University eleven has again shown its propensity to avert defeat by an eleventh hour fighting finish. But this is too dangerous for the comfort of the team's supporters -- and against an opponent like Michigan, the rally may be too long postponed. The team must fight from the start in its game next Saturday and on subsequent encounters, for despite its showing against Syracuse the Western university will send a powerful eleven to the Stadium...