Word: avoid
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...book has been on the press for more than a week, it is hoped that the Register will be put on sale before the vacation. Due notice will be given before the Register is actually placed on sale. As the edition is strictly limited, all men who wish to avoid the possibility of disappointment should send their subscription in advance to G. H. Dorr at 33 Apley Court. The price of the Register is $1.50 to all men in the University and $2 to all others...
...kitchen at West Point is a avoid of electrical development. Several barrels of potatoes used daily to feed the cadets are peeled by a machine driver by electricity. The silverware is polished, eggs are beaten, meat and vegetables are chopped and dishes are washed by the same power...
...back on abuses which have occasioned this solidarity, has not helped the situation. Both are like blind men, thinking they perceive an enemy and thrashing about wildly in mutually destructive combat. Only when the energy thus wasted can be turned to a sane recognition of true facts, can we avoid revolution and attack the abuses which obstruct the road to progress...
...order to avoid any misunderstanding, the announcement is made that men who usher at the Yale game will in all cases receive the full number of tickets for which they have applied. The rule regarding personal occupancy of seats will, of course, be inoperative in the case of ushers. Any man in the University is entitled to apply for an ushership, which entails free admission to the game. More men are needed and application may be made before Wednesday of this week at Leavitt & Peirce's, the H. A. A., or the Phillips Brooks House. The full list of ushers...
...novelist began by emphatically vetoing the prevalent idea that the traditional advice of literary men to ambitious writers is to avoid such a career. "If you wish to write, do so," he said. "If you fail you will soon find out, and in all events you will enjoy yourself...