Word: avoidable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...avoid this difficulty in future, the Board proposes to establish "validating examinations," to test the worth of such certificates. These examinations would be similar in purpose to those given to candidates for West Point and Annapolis. They would cover the main subjects without conflicting with regular examinations. To be successful, however, the examinations should be genuine indications of the student's quality and not perfunctory tests to be overcome by intensive cramming. If properly given they ought to hasten the day when colleges will no longer be burdened with misplaced individuals...
...significance) does he rather seek after beauty and truth for the sake only of beauty and truth? If the former, then surely "the glory of a university is the enticement and production of scholars destined to be eminent in their fields." If the latter, will not the scholar avoid being sacrificed to the glory of a university as he would avoid death...
...First National) is routine death-before-dishonor melodrama except that in most such cases it is considered against the rules for either death or dishonor, no matter how imminent they may be, actually to occur. This time a streetwalker has escaped from New Orleans to an unnamed island to avoid the legal penalty for a murder which she thinks she has committed. She (Dorothy Mackaill), finds herself in a quandary. She can either accept the attentions of a greasy jail-warden, or allow him to give evidence that will cause her to be killed before her husband returns...
...avoid squabbling and charges of favoritism, the Mother Country would not fix a separate quota for her imports from each Dominion. Instead British wheat importers would be required to show that a certain percentage of all their imports (55% was suggested), came from one or more Dominions. Inter-Dominion competition for the British market would thus be kept keen...
...From 1905 to 1910 he did Y. M. C. A. work, lectured for the Anti-Saloon League. Rugged, unkempt, Poet Lindsay liked to vagabond about the land, trading verses for food and shelter. His rules for hoboes: Be "neat, deliberate, chaste and civil . . . preach the gospel of beauty," avoid cities, cash, baggage, railroads; ask for dinner at 10:45 a. m., supper, lodging and breakfast at 4:45 p. m. Vachel (rhymes with Rachel) Lindsay's poetry was rich, loamy, indigenous in praise of the U. S. and its heroes. His most famed verses, however, were rhythmic, jazzy ones...