Word: avoid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...depends on my state of mind. There are times when I deliberately avoid the crises in International and National Affairs and relax with Cinema or Medicine until I am capable of coping with the 'problems.' TIME is not to be read hurriedly like a to-be-continued-tomorrow serial because many of TIME'S stories are as timely today as they were a year...
...sincerely hope that a conscious effort will be made in the future to avoid irrelevant mention of skin colors and the like. I realize that we are all accustomed to notice the color of a man's skin first and foremost. It is his most striking physical characteristic. That is why a conscious effort is absolutely necessary to prevent the description of this characteristic from creeping in where it does not belong. Hans A. Wolf...
Peter succeeded to the Yugoslav throne in a sudden palace move to avoid ratification of an extremely unpopular pact with Germany which had been pushed by regent Prince Paul. Almost immediately after, Peter fled by plane from the country and has never returned...
...avoid too-narrow limits, students would be able to choose their courses from an approved list of nearly 30 offerings. The only really restrictive ruling would require that after the fall of 1951 three of the required six courses must come from the elementary GE list--which even now provides 11 choices in social sciences, humanities, and natural sciences. The remaining credits would be elected from either the upper-group GE list or a bumper crop of departmental courses. In every step of the actual framing, the Committee has been careful to allow leeway-- even to the inclusion...
Harvard, which comes rather late than early to this problem, has benefitted by the mistakes of its colleagues: the Wright proposals, by allowing the widest latitude of time as well as choice, avoid the real danger evident in other colleges, which destroy all choice by stacking the required courses in the first two years and saving concentration for later...