Word: avoidable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Aintree. The biggest steeplechaser in the year's biggest steeplechase-the 93rd Grand National last week at Aintree, England - was a Chestnut owned by C. P. Brocklehurst named Pelorus Jack. Waiting for the start, while the heavier jockeys stood beside their mounts to avoid tiring them, Pelorus Jack was well-behaved. He balked at one of the early jumps and unseated his rider. At the Canal Turn, a 6-ft. ditch and 5-ft. hedge of fir in front of a right-angle turn, Pelorus Jack was responsible for one of those moments of wild confusion which occur...
...think that the chief significance lies in the fact that while we have at best only one chance in ten of "voting in" enough socialism to avoid serious revolution within one generation, still the respected newspaper in Harvard University is happily excited over the great struggles of "Democratic" and "Republican" candidates against each other...
...general course reduction goes into effect next year, it will be even less representative. Requiring no thesis, it does not show sufficient extra work over that of the pass man to justify honors. Further it gives too easy an opportunity for the brilliant man to become lazy and avoid the labor an honors thesis requires. Perhaps the strongest argument, however, against general honors is that it marks an end in themselves, an attitude that the University is trying to get away from by means of the tutorial system...
...true that general distinction has advantages. It has the salutary effect of discouraging too great an emphasis on specialization, a tendency that Harvard has need to avoid. It offers some reward for good scholarship in general, for which the student really deserves recognition...
...being secondary material, have become the real news of the day. Conventionality is almost prescribed since every eccentricity, everything that is individual about a man, is unearthed and broadcast by the press, Lindbergh has long been a case in point, now, having moved into a secluded place to avoid the public spotlight, he is again subject to the most merciless publicity, Every "angle" is played up; every drop of human interest must be squeezed out of the story into the newspapers. And in cynical self-justification one of the Boston papers bewailed the fact that so much money...