Word: avoidable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Author, Born in Vienna in 1881, of rich Jewish parents, Stefan Zweig until the World War was more of a traveler than an author. His first popular work was an anti-War play, Jeremiah, produced in Switzerland to avoid German and Austrian censorship. He now writes to carry out a conscious literary program. Other translated works: Paul Verlaine, Emile Verhaeren, Romain Rolland, Passion and Pain, Invisible Collection, Conflicts, Adepts in Self-Portraiture, Joseph Fouché, Amok...
...avoid falling into the pitfall of superficiality the Law School makes no attempt to cover in the curriculum everything "which experience has shown practitioners should know." The present practice allows a real degree of independence entirely outside the rigid demands of the fields prescribed for the degree. The Law School student has opportunities for investigation in practical problems through the agency of the Ames Competition, the Law Review, and the work with the Legal Aid Bureau. The policy governing the Law School, as explained by Dean Pound, is both severe and strong. With an inflexible minimum requirement and many chances...
...Little by Little." Fathers have confiscated whole libraries of Algerians from erring sons and have sat up half the night before a fire set for the avowed purpose of incinerating the fame of the great author. It was a simple creed he preached, this Harvard man. Live cleanly, avoid dirt, and the pathway to monetary, armorial, and spiritual success is a broad highway with a 20 percent grade. In those days there was no Comparative Literature...
Wages. The 3% emergency surcharge was not the sole benefit resulting from the roads' appeal to the I. C. C. They were able to show the public that they had pared maintenance costs to the edge of safety; that they could not avoid taxes and fixed charges on bonds because these were established by law; finally, that the only remaining solution to railroad ills seemed to be a reduction in wages. It was an unpleasant "but, they claimed, unavoidable fact. Many carrier executives and office workers had already taken salary cuts...
...existing funds are concerned, the University will doubtless continue to defend itself by rotten logic. It ought to avoid prolonging the embarassment of its position by asking that future gifts be made without restrictions. By refusing restricted gifts the University can prevent the recurrence of the difficulty. Only in this way can it eliminate the questionable practices so ineffectually camouflaged in the President's report...