Word: avoid
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...case of the Student Council it only produces a heterogenous body of undergraduates who, no matter how able in their individual fields, are seldom capable of even a normal performance of what should be the duties of Student Council members and who exert all their serupulosity to avoid anything so compromising as action...
...avoid confusion and to keep the dances up to schedule, a bell will be rung dances up to schedule, a bell will be rung at the beginning of each dance. During the first period no cutting-in will be allowed. After supper, however, cutting in will be permitted during the encores, which follow each dance. The signal for the completion of an encore will be two bells. The complete musical program follows...
...relative grading--which is equally inapplicable to such courses as mathematics, where an absolute rating is not only possible but imperative. And even in the other courses, a relative grade-curve has ineradicable defects. The Freshmen, for example are required to have three C's and one D to avoid probation; if they chance to go on probation, they must have four C's to get off. Suppose that a Freshman, already on probation takes a course in which 35 per cent--to choose a conservative figure are predestined, foreordained to receive an E or a D. His chance...
...jazz-drummer with a soul above percussion. Naturally, like any stage shopgirl, she falls prey to a wily villain with a wife. When the wife and a cop turn on the girl in a gaudy den of pleasure, she jumps out of a, window as the best way to avoid an explanation. Unfortunately, a tree outside breaks her fall. She lives. The play doesn't. It is a violent melodrama, a case of theatrical hiccoughs...
...specific social reaction." For example, the actor Charles Kean declared that when he was playing the part of a tyrant he ate pork; when he was playing a murderer, he ate beef, and when he was playing a martyr he ate mutton. The moral is clearly to avoid beef...