Word: avoid
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...time-table the Negro will never get to the land beyond.' 'Thriftlessness,' said I, 'is the Negro's great handicap-thriftlessness of time, health, money.' Chicago Commissioner of Health Bundesen followed me, urged Negroes to eat properly so as to avoid anemia, pneumonia, rickets." Pliny Fisk, financier: "After dining in a Columbus Circle restaurant one evening last week, I walked toward my hotel, on the upper west side of Manhattan, alone. A large Negro brushed roughly by me. 'Be careful how you are walking,' said I. 'Mind you' own business...
...athletic agreement with Yale, which replaces the now defunct tripartate pact between Yale, Princeton, and Harvard, is not particularly significant in its terms. The only modification of importance, that in Section 3 of Article VI of the original pact, operates chiefly to avoid misunderstandings from over-vague wording. Aside from that, the general tendency of the new agreement seems to be to offer more freedom to the independent discretion of the respective Athletic Committees than was permitted under the old regime. Beyond the statement about post-season or sectional championship games, in fact, Yale and Harvard will in the future...
...prayer book should be consonant with today's needs. This Alternative Prayer Book was "permissive only." A priest could use the altered prayers, if he pleased and his congregation consented; but a bishop could not enforce the use of the new version. For convenience and to avoid controversy the old prayers were printed intact, with the modified ones alongside. And lastly, the majority of the changes dealt with non-controversial subjects and the bishops had approved most of them unanimously...
...farm bill which the farm bloc desired. And, while he has not signed any of the bills which the farm bloc did not want, he has never offered any plan of relief. He has confined himself to advising farmers to cooperate on their own initiative. Hitherto, the President has avoided vetoing a farm bloc bill by using his influence to kill the bill in Congress. Last week it became clear that he could no longer avoid the personal issue...
...University and its Western alumni a decade or more ago. We do not believe that any rule of thumb test, whatever it is called, will be of much use in discovering a boy's aptitude for college work. But the Scholastic Aptitude tests that are now being experimented with avoid that error; if they are not given too great weight, they can be of some use without doubt. The danger in that sort of thing always lies in its too-theoretical use. The ending of the old entrance "conditions" simply means that the University is now considering its Freshman applicants...