Word: avoid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first hasty words regarding President Conant's resignation seem, upon reflection, an inadequate statement of our feelings. We did not want to overemphasize his importance as president of Harvard lest we seem to deplore his decision to resign. But in attempting to avoid that pitfall, we fear that we did not sufficiently emphasize our deep sorrow and regret at his retirement...
This plan, said the general, would avoid "the nightmare absurdity" of France's surrender of sovereignty to a supranational army...
Three of its seven divisions promptly revolted against the Sultan Defense Minister while-to avoid charges of mutiny-professing continued allegiance to the chief of state, President Achmad Soekarno. Regiments fought within themselves and against each other...
...President's change of vocation is doubtlessly a gain for foreign policy. Doubtlessly, too, it is a gain for the President, else he would have refused the job, and on both counts we congratulate him. Yet, for some reason--parochialism, perhaps--we can't avoid dwelling on the loss this involves to education and to the University in particular. Now that liberal arts colleges are sustaining one assault after another, this loss is heavier than one might suspect...
...service to be able to handle the additional work under the McCarran Act. In the meantime, the U.S. Immigration Service made a "gentleman's agreement" with the major foreign shipping lines to put an inspector aboard the big liners to screen the crews during the voyage; this would avoid a hopeless jam on arrival. The first inspector to try it was Leonard Martin, who went aboard the Liberte when it left New York Dec. 9, and spent the voyage to France and back screening the crew...