Word: avoidable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Freshman Union and the Yard a real center for Freshman activity. At present he is trying, and with success, too, to bring the first year man into intimate contact with his Faculty Adviser, who can, and should, offer valuable advice concerning courses concentration, distribution, and especially how to avoid them. Always forward-looking, like a good protege of the progressive Dean Hanford, "Del" Leighton has proved the value of the office created...
...Goddess, Great Ancestress of the Imperial House. To pray for the welfare of the Japanese Emperor is to pray for the welfare of the whole nation. Next thing is to seek Cleanliness and Purity (washing the hands and if possible rinsing the mouth before approaching a shrine) and to avoid the contamination of Death and Blood. Out of Shinto 95 years ago emerged Japan's Mary Baker Eddy, Mrs. Miki Nakayama. She received her God, preached his doctrine that man is created for Happiness. She wrote psalms, performed cures. Like Mrs. Eddy (but some 30 years before...
While Sato was being wholesomely frightened, officials were determined to give away no secrets to potential enemies. The Foreign Office warned all embassy attaches to carry identification cards "to avoid inconvenience." Enthusiastic war-game players sharply questioned many a foreigner on Tokyo's excited streets. The U. S. naval attaches discreetly withdrew to the summer resort of Karuizawa, 87 mi. from Tokyo...
...Hagan of Pittsburgh the problem was more complex than that. He thought that children often confuse the numbness of local anesthesia with real pain, that a lifelong antipathy often springs from the child's first visit to the dentist. To avoid this he recommended that all patients under five years of age be given a general anesthetic. He also urged that adults whose fears cannot otherwise be quieted be put to sleep before undergoing a dental operation...
...existence and begins to look for cause & cure, he finds himself adrift in theory. In a letter to the Times, Dr. Harry Campbell, veteran British neurologist, spoke for the older school when he declared that claustrophobia is simply the morbid expression of a universal animal instinct to avoid capture. Dr. W. Stephenson, University of London psychologist, tartly retorted through the Times that Dr. Campbell's theory was 'very inadequate. . . . Much more satisfactory is ... the current psychoanalytical theory." Psychoanalysis holds, roughly, that morbid fear is the result of a distressing experience in early life, later repressed into the Unconscious...