Word: avoidable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...attempt to avoid a repetition of this year's unsatisfactory record, Coach Wesley Fesler has decided to inaugurate spring basketball practice. Out of seventeen games played thus far, Harvard has won only three, and Fesler has been continually changing the lineup in an attempt to find an efficient combination...
...reared in the south of England. Her Spartan father, recently deceased, "believed all poets were blackguards, that Moses actually saw God in the brush fire, that ethical excellence could only be inculcated by the heavy rod, that trade was outcast and that the summum bonum of existence was to avoid your neighbor." Miss Gore's mother reared her to believe in poetry, in fantastic superstitions like witches, ghosts and the headless coachman, and in the nobility of the Gores--"if Ireland had her rights each of us would be wearing a coronet." At the age of twenty Miss Gore...
...paper henceforth. The Cardinal wrote a letter to Mr. Curtis. My landlady made me move. The Ledger accumulated what is perhaps the most remarkable "Don't" list in the history of American journalism (and there have been some swell "don't" lists), in an effort to avoid any further annoyance to the Catholic Church. One of these "don'ts" represents to my mind the farthest South in newspaper rules. That summer, when the St. Louis National Team was playing in the World Series, we were not permitted to refer to them as the Cardinals...
...spite of his years John Henry plays tennis, a cautious, slicing game. Sometimes the ball bounces far to the right, sometimes far to the left, and again most unexpectedly it may rebound into his own court. John Henry used similar tactics with Haiti's scheming politicians. To avoid even the appearance of militarism he wore civilian clothes. Through tall, thin, cafe-au-lait Louis Borno, John Henry kept tight rein on all Haitian legislation. Under him Haiti's internal and external debt was reduced to $14,000,000. He established eleven hospitals, 139 rural clinics to treat malaria...
...avoid charges of bias they had the Independent Journal of Columbia send out a questionnaire to 2,560 members of the American Economic Association, had the 845 answers tabulated and analyzed by the secretary of the American Statis tical Association. Questions on which there were clear majorities...