Word: avoidable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...professor of English at Trinity College, will be Poet at the annual Phi Beta Kappa day program on Monday, June 15. William Cushing Wait '82 of Medford, president of the Harvard Phi Beta Kappa chapter, will preside over the meeting, which is being held early in Commencement Week to avoid conflict with Yale...
...extraordinary heights above the coast ranges of California, were once a common sight. They have been exterminated partly because of their proclivity for occasionally preying upon livestock, but mostly in the course of man's attempt to rid himself of wolves and foxes. These animals have learned to avoid poisoned meat, but the condors, eaters of carrion, swoop and gobble...
...Further, I promise, insofar as in me lies, to shun the public press or public gatherings of laymen where my attitude might be regarded as seeking self-advancement; to avoid selfishness and commercialism in my professional practice; to influence patients to appreciate their financial responsibilities to their medical advisers; to adjust my compensation to the circumstances of my patients and to make such charges commensurate with the services rendered and to avoid discrediting my profession by seeking unwarranted compensation...
...must have loosened a connection of her oxygen breather. . . . Next thing that Elinor Smith saw was the Hempstead, L. I. reservoir only 2,000 ft. away, rushing up to meet her. She pulled her ship into a gliding angle, skimmed into a field, jammed on the brakes to avoid striking a tree. The plane nosed over. Rescuers rushed up to find the girl unhurt, walking about, crying hysterically. Such was the end of her attempt to regain the women's altitude record from Ruth Nichols, who soared to 28,743 ft. a few weeks ago (TIME, March...
...each generation is to consider not only economic theory but the whole gamut of the complex sociological factors existing at the time and to stimulate progress. ... So far as possible it should avoid creating new dangers for its successors...