Word: avoid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Jordan expressed concern over students' increasing tendency to avoid the Natural Sciences as a area of concentration, despite a conscious effort by the admissions office to raise the average mathematical aptitude of the student body. Nearly 90 percent of Radcliffe undergraduates major in the Social Sciences and Humanities, with almost half the students concentrating in the three departments of English, History, and History and Literature...
...family (the Knowlands have two daughters, one son). But Helen says: "But we know he loves us ... It's Billy's way, and it's all right with me." Bill once reprimanded her for jaywalking on the grounds that the wife of a lawmaker should avoid even the slightest infraction of law. But Helen merely says, half facetiously: "His high principles can be almost a nuisance at times." She encourages him in his only real hobby: pasting items about the life and times of Bill Knowland into scrapbooks. Begun when he was nine years old, the scrapbooks...
Owner Brecker spiced Roseland's entertainment with female prizefights, yo-yo exhibitions, sneezing contests, and dozens of highly publicized jazz weddings, uniting couples who had found romance in Roseland's violet twilight. His finest inspiration, until it was banned by the police, was the dance marathon. To avoid the wrath of Mayor Jimmy Walker, he once carted a truckload of still-dancing marathoners to an excursion steamer and took them out beyond the three-mile limit, where they all became violently sick at the rail...
...followed the "raise hell and sell newspapers" tradition, raised the Journal-Bulletin's moral sights instead, still sold a lot of papers (1956 combined circulation: 201,789). A journalistic puritan under whose guidance the Providence Journal Co. once kept a rival paper afloat for several months to avoid the evils of monopoly, Sevellon Brown regularly hired bright young men with graduate degrees (and paid so little that many quit after a short hitch), spent much of his time trying to raise the nation's standards of newspapering. Publisher Brown's own standard: "A newspaper...
Coach Cooney Weiland said last night that he would not decide whether to use Kelley until today, but it was likely that the fast sophomore would not play to avoid risk of further injuring his wrenched back...