Word: avoid
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...object of the League is the extermination of the beverage liquor traffic, for the accomplishing of which the alliance of all who are in harmony with this object are invited. The League pledges itself to avoid affiliation with any political party as such and to maintain an attitude of strict neutrality on all questions of public policy not directly and immediately concerned with the traffic in strong drink...
...TIME, Nov. 29). And last week Chicagoans throbbed again, including even the strictly business-like Journal of Commerce & La Salle Street Journal, when Mr. Insull explained to the 2,500 long-suffering guarantors of the Chicago Civic Opera Co., of which he is president, how this music Mecca could avoid losing money...
This will be the only fund to which students will be asked to contribute next year. Formerly, each institution has administered the collection of its own funds, resulting in confusion which the present plan is designed to avoid...
...upon it as a mere corruption of student privilege and as a detriment to the efficiency of an institution, its regulations and practical control subject themselves to closer investigations. It is in this agency that Princeton undergraduates are proposing certain changes, in the hope that a renovated system will avoid any that a renovated system will avoid any such disturbance as marked the career of the Princeton Student Council during the present year, when it came into strained relations with the trustees over the question of student automobiles...
Insomnia. "The sick and nervous are slow in getting to sleep and are helped most by the rest they get between 5 and 9 o'clock in the morning. . . . Something can often be done for insomnia by teaching the patient to keep his mind off disturbing thoughts, to avoid mental work or exciting conversations after dinner, to take a warm bath and a little food on retiring and to go to bed earlier. . . . The less the patient sleeps one night, the less he is able to sleep the next, and the only thing that will break the vicious circle...