Word: avoidable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...extreme. Many rates, particularly those on short-haul goods for which trucks compete, would not be changed. What the roads were really after was I. C. C. permission to adjust rates of their own choosing within a 15% range, thereby increasing their operating revenue by 10%. To avoid protracted arguments over individual rates, they consolidated their plan into one blanket petition for a horizontal increase for all lines...
...respect the average 1931 graduate is finicky. He would rather avoid a business where the prospects of career are not clear. Hence many are deliberately taking time out. The majority of those who are not seeking work immediately after graduating are going into graduate schools, for two reasons: 1) to "escape from reality"; 2) to make themselves specialists. A large ratio of the aspirant specialists are trying to get into graduate schools of business, realizing that U. S. Business has become a skilled profession...
...years," he declares, "have faced the economic difficulties which confront the college graduate this June." In the huge roster of the unemployed he finds his justification. It would be unwise, he suggests, for the graduates this year to join the general competition for work if they can possibly avoid doing...
...problem which is due to cause not a little heart-burning worry has been thrust upon public attention by the class day advice offered by the dean of Harvard College to that institution's graduates of this year. In substance he tells the class to avoid seeking work for pay if they can, and to continue their students...
Education cannot be viewed as a pillow upon which youth is urged to sit down one moment beyond the time required to finish preparation for the more serious business of life. Education which bids youth to avoid the fight for which it has equipped itself is surely a dubious mentor. Beyond question, the difficulties in the way of graduating classes from our higher institutions of learning are this year formidable. But the only way to solve a difficulty is to grapple with it directly. Opportunity to earn one's living is found no other way, even in the darkest hours...