Word: avoidable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have tried to avoid the words 'wet' and 'dry.' Men labeled wet may be as much opposed to the saloon as men labeled dry. The saloon must not come back. The people of the U. S. are well...
...degree. For a long time the public had been accustomed to seeing, in Lucky, advertisements, a picture of a single-chinned man or woman casting a fat and double-chinned shadow, the moral being that by much smoking instead of much eating one . . . is also Hill's, would "avoid that future shadow." Last week, however, an entire figure-a golfer -was pictured; and an entire shadow- the same golfer, apparently afflicted with overall elephantiasis-pointed the appalling moral.* Meanwhile, in England, precisely the same technique was being employed in the advertising of Kensitas cigarets. Here was pictured a slender...
...three issues), a magazine bound like a book, superior in typography to any other U. S. undergraduate publication, illustrated with photographs of drawings and sculpture by Dartmouth men. Said the undergraduate daily Dartmouth: "Definitely better than one's best expectations. . . . The . . . project will have to step carefully to avoid the . . . error of being too consciously arty...
...been not only a great banker, but an illuminating banker. His essays on banking are published in Vol. II of his book. The Significance. "The object in writing this book was to show whence we came, whither we are drifting, and by what fairly simple means we can avoid dangerous rocks now threatening our course." The laity however will regret Mr. Warburg's decision to go the "extreme of foregoing to mention by name even onetime fellows-at-arms to whom I longed to pay a tribute. . . ." For, as everyone knows, names point and clarify information. While the elect...
...whole trend of his argument is against the practice of forcing the preparatory school to become a mere sausage machine that turns out a uniform procession of automatons stuffed with a scientifically balanced ration of minutiae. The danger is, however, that in attempting to avoid this evil by relying on the preparatory school to provide a sound background without the scourge of the College Boards, the matter of the varying quality of the various secondary schools is neglected. And in addition to this, under Dr. Snedden's plan the requirements of individual colleges are given no consideration. The result...