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Word: avoidable (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...machinery in the basement supplies air cooled by the equivalent of 30 tons of melting ice per day. Meanwhile builders on the $160,000 reconstruction job were trying to earn the $200 bonus they will get for every day they lop off on the 90-day contract schedule, to avoid a $200-per-day forfeit for overtime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Hoover Week: Jan. 27, 1930 | 1/27/1930 | See Source »

...late President Eliot once said that a college was not properly administered if it did not report an annual treasury deficit. Perhaps times have changed in this respect since Harvard university established its great school of business administration, which teaches sound business principles and practice, especially how to avoid using red ink in making an annual balancesheet...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Sordid Meanness" | 1/24/1930 | See Source »

Coming as the product of several years of consideration, the plan is designed to avoid the defects of systems in effect at other institutions. In contrast, for example, to the Harvard tutorial system which has been adopted by so many Eastern colleges, it is not compulsory. Further, the comprehensive examinations at Harvard cover the entire field of a subject regardless of whether or not the material is embodied in the courses the student has taken. The general examinations under the new plan will ordinarily embrace only material that has been included in the courses; but, at the request...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Semi-Tutorial System | 1/24/1930 | See Source »

...discussing the House Plan, President Lowell seems at some pains to avoid the appearance of rushing the thing by emphasizing the point that the idea has been in the minds of the Corporation for some two decades. It seems justifiable to assume that this somewhat anxious stressing of what is at best a flimsy support arises from the consciousness that the completion of the plan is being forced with extraordinary haste. Certainly the statement that all the houses will be ready for occupancy by a year from next September falls as a surprise upon the ears of those who last...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREAKING THE SPEED LIMIT | 1/7/1930 | See Source »

...bitter. On Armistice Day, while London is going mad outside the windows, he goes up to young Bolt's office, sits down alone, smokes a pipe, thinks of Charley Bolt who has been killed. The book ends with Tomlinson and Maynard revisiting the weedgrown battlefields of France, trying to avoid souvenir-collecting tourists, trying to see some hope for the future...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Aristocracy | 1/6/1930 | See Source »

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