Word: avoid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...those who want to avoid Social Relations, here is a field that offers a case study in human relations from the past. Department head C. Crane Brinton '19 calls history one of the best ways of extending your experience and his department has the top-light lecturers with which to make your experience in it extremely rewarding...
...tried to avoid this problem by exempting only women with children, the girls said, "the birth rate would curve sharply and in a few years the country would be overpopulated...
...better and less ambitious pictures is Dreaming Girl. Outlined with conscious clumsiness, she fairly bulges her canvas. She is weighted with sleep, yet every line betrays a dreamer's restlessness. Her thick legs press together and her feet lock like hands; her head twists sideways as if to avoid the lute that lies across her. The painting clearly suggests the old Greek theme of Leda, with the lute serving as a dark swan. But Beckmann was not the man to labor his expressionism with handy tags and explanations...
Millions of Degrees. According to Perón's high-sounding claims, Richter and his assistants "worked on the basis of thermonuclear reactions, which are identical with those whereby the sun releases atomic energy ... It was necessary to have enormous temperatures of millions of degrees ... To avoid catastrophic explosions, it was necessary to find processes whereby it would be possible to control thermonuclear reactions in a chain. That objective, almost unattainable, was reached...
Arms & the Men. Du Pont took the H-bomb job with the greatest reluctance. Ever since a U.S. Senate committee investigated the munitions industry in 1934, Du Pont has sought to avoid anything that might revive the "merchants of death" stigma which the committee's inquisitor, a skillful young lawyer named Alger Hiss, helped hang upon it. But the Government thought that Du Pont was the only company for the job. Said an atomic energy expert: "To ask anybody else to build the plant when you could get Du Pont would be like settling for a rookie when...