Word: avoid
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Significance is manifold. The spectrum of radio-carrying ether vibrations is, like the light spectrum, definitely limited in extent. Commercial broadcasting in the U. S. has utilized all the higher wave lengths, which, to avoid interference between stations, must be spaced about eight metres apart. So loaded is the air that identical wavelengths have already had to be assigned to pairs of stations, the one remaining silent during the other's program. At U. S. Secretary of Commerce Hoover's radio conference, called for early next month, wave-congestion will be the principal problem discussed...
...submit to the Crimson by telephone or in writing, the dates for meetings already scheduled, so that they may be entered in the date book kept by the news department of the CRIMSON. It further recommends that these officers consult this book before scheduling future meetings, in order to avoid conflicting dates...
Race Equality. Viscount Willingdon, sometime Governor of Bombay and Madras declared roundly before the Congress that the white man must let down the color bar to other races, in order to avoid an inter-racial war in the future. Said he: "Providence long ago placed the white man in a position of trusteeship . . . Now his colored wards have grown up . . . He can no longer dominate them . . . He must treat all colored men in a spirit of absolute equality . . . A clash of races would be the ghastliest tragedy in history...
...strangely vicious circle. Competent conscientious lawyers for their part are the first to strive to avoid for their clients all unnecessary litigation. But men of lesser standards attracted into the profession by the success of these very men constantly make for an increase of litigation whether their brothers wish it or no. The only available brake upon such development is an increased severity in the terms of admission to the bar. Boston Transcript...
...management intends to continue with last year's method of serving the midnight supper. In order to avoid confusion resulting from everyone crowding in to eat at the same time, each couple on entering the building, will be given a supper card on which will be stamped the exact hour at which they are to go in for supper...