Word: avoidable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...undesirable in the extreme, and it is the task of the Committee to find a path that will lead between these poles on some middle course. That is, it must develop a policy which will bring at least a fair average of success in conflict and yet will avoid the creation of a group of semi-professional athletes, whose existence in the University is justified solely by their prowess on the field of battle...
...which was nearly successful in gaining control of the legislature. On that control rested the fate of Harvard, for learning was a thing to be abhorred as from the Devil. It could only lead to confusion, and, never having heard of Gertrude Stein, believed that the only way to avoid confusion and gain the truth was to have revelations from...
...appears," says Dr. Dearborn, "that in order to avoid difficulties in reading and writing, one should be either left-eyed and left-handed or right-eyed and right-handed, and preferably the latter. Difficulties appear especially in children who have been changed over in handedness or whose one-sidedness or lateral dominance has never been well established...
...misgauged the nation's state of mind, and overstepped its bounds, it was summarily defeated in 1920. On the major issues of controversy, therefore, Roosevelt and his cohorts will do well to keep a sensitive ear to the country's reaction to their policies. They should at all costs avoid the danger of rejuvenating the outworn spoils system as they face the problem of allocating federal funds. From the point of view of expediency rather than of morals, they should take care lest they succumb to the temptation of interpreting the recent victory as an indication of desire for dictatorship...
...still the music of Franz Lehar, the old bandmaster, who contrary to general opinion, is still bandmastering, is the best thing on the program. The picture is diverting, hardly-colossal, if you have a chance, drop in, but as you value your sanity, avoid Mr. Martel's suburban organ music...