Word: avoid
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hygiene. Dr. Means stated that most of the Freshmen physical examinations which obliged further study were the results of heart trouble and that a special effort was made in such cases to determine the amount of activity, physical exercise in particular, which would lead to general health and yet avoid heart strain...
...Minister Painlevé said: "The Mass Mobilization Bill only insures daily collaboration between the economic and military defenders of France. . . . No effort should be spared to avoid the cataclysm which, the next time, would wipe out entire populations, without distinction to age or sex. Any statesman who does not dwell on these thoughts is not worthy of public trust...
...between the Church and the State in which the State did not lose. But last week Hope peeked over the Vatican walls and winked at his holiness. Il Papa was to emancipate himself with an airplane, despatches from the Eternal City hinted. In this way he was able to avoid the technical foot-touching of Italy...
...sold. Yesterday morning the "For Sale" sign appeared under written by the name of Sleeper and Dunlop, real estate agents. It has always been in private hands and many times before has been on the point of being demolished. Once the alumni contributed to a fund to avoid its destruction...
Able son and namesake of an able father, Knowlton L. ("Jew") Ames Jr. was called "Junior" by his family to avoid confusion. After "Junior" was abbreviated to its first syllable for convenience, friends, to tease, spelled it "Jew." The able father, Knowlton L. ("Snake") Ames, was also a footballer; derived his nickname from his elusive, "squirmy," hard-to-tackle action as quarterback of Princeton elevens...