Word: avoidable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hand of the scholar who is also a natural teacher. If scholarship is too greatly rewarded, teachers grow scarce, and all but the extraordinary student are left in the lurch. An even balance between instructive words and sublime deeds must be kept, if the college is to avoid the fate of some of its follows who have become mere graduate schools...
...multi-motored ships and by modern engines which once warmed up, do not cut out. Transport operators hoot at the idea of danger in landing under power. They point out that at any moment during a landing, a pilot may need to gun his engines full blast to avoid collision, or to overcome a sudden shift of wind. Unless the engines have been turning over constantly, they will be choked and useless when he needs them. Hence the pilot "gooses" the motors with short bursts as he comes slanting down to the field...
This year Casey has retained a squad of 57, which is considerable larger than usual. Norman Fradd, director of Physical Education, has been giving the entire squad daily exercises to get the men in condition and toughen them up, in order to avoid the injuries that were so fatal to the 1932 team. The first scrimmage was held on Tuesday and a second one yesterday afternoon...
...Wallace Beery (Dan Packard), Lee Tracy (Renault's agent), Billie Burke (Millicent Jordan), Edmund Lowe (Dr. Talbot) and Karen Morley (Mrs. Talbot), supported by such $1,000-a-week celebrities as Phillips Holmes, Jean Hersholt, Madge Evans, Grant Mitchell and the late Louise Closser Hale, perform brilliantly and avoid each others' toes. Good shot: Kitty Packard making up her mind to give her maid a bracelet. Paddy, the Next Best Thing (Fox) is very clearly Fox's notion of the next best thing to Metro's Peg 0' My Heart. It is an idyll...
...accepting the printed form ticket; 2) as the plane's sole passenger he had "chartered" it; and 3) there had been no negligence on the part of Pilot Percy C. Henry Jr. who was also killed when he tried to land his plane to avoid heavy fog immediately ahead...