Word: avoidable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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SCORNING all rules of writing and adopting as his one maxim, "forget anybody who ever wrote anything" a new writer, 26-year old Armenian William Saroyan, published his first book of short stories this month. Despite Mr. Saroyan's too evident desire to avoid classification, however, he is easily catalogued as belonging to that school of writing dominated by Gertrude Stein, James Joyce, and Edith Sitwell, so aptly labeled by Max Eastman as "the cult of unintelligibility...
Although Captain Gian C. Brusati was the only member of the Italian fencing team on hand due to missed train connections, a number of matches were improvised between Harvard and American stars in order to avoid disappointing a large crowd which had gathered last evening at the Indoor Athletic Building...
...green eyeshade, exhorted his hearers to take advantage of their opportunities. "No one will stand by with a red." Other bits of advice: "Don't be afraid of learning things that are just so." "Take reasonable care of your health." "Don't succumb to the preva- lent disposition to avoid taking part in a public discussion in a lecture-room...
...players rushed into their dugout to avoid the crowd that jumped the rails to congratulate them. Police held the crowd back...
Since 2,000,000 pious Catholics pledged themselves to avoid indecent pictures, attendance at U. S. cinema theatres has been from 10% to 30% above last year's. The cause of the rise is a subject for dispute. Legion of Decency adherents hold that since midsummer, pictures have been cleaner, hence better patronized by obedient Catholics. Cynical opponents suggest that the Legion of Decency has aided indecent pictures by advertising them. To impartial observers it seemed that the increase in cinema attendance had less to do with the Legion of Decency's campaign than with the facts that...