Word: avoidable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...publicity-seeking" and "cheap methods of gaining notoriety", we state without qualification that the publicity in the Boston papers was unsolicited on our part, and unknown to us before its appearance. We cannot feel obliged to avoid controversial issues merely because the local press finds the labor situation at Harvard worthy of front page coverage...
...reorganization looked like the first item on the calendar but on it also was something definitely not included on the President's list. This was the Wagner-Van Nuys Anti-Lynching Bill which Senate Democratic Leader Alben Barkley had agreed to consider early in the current session to avoid a possible filibuster in the closing days of the last one. With antilynching, and the possibility of a major Congressional uproar on the subject of taxation added to the President's highly controversial program, the only thing the special session seemed completely sure of was its full share...
John Bakeless adds to this small list a careful, 404-page biography of Marlowe that pulls together a mass of recently discovered Marlowe material, explodes a few hoary Marlowe legends, but leaves the poet as mysterious and romantic as ever. Making a studious attempt to avoid scholarly language, Mr. Bakeless nevertheless spends much time answering earlier scholars, tracks many incorrect interpretations down many blind alleys...
...Faculty of Education for the better training of teachers, marked a momentous change. Not only was cooperation substituted for competition between the two bodies in the University, but the move brought into sharp focus the problems of educational policy as a primary Harvard interest. Now it is impossible to avoid discussion of a fundamental question: what does Harvard want education to be? The future of education has thus become the care of the University as a whole. Unfortunately, that responsibility is not viewed with the proper seriousness, as seen in the several immediate requirements of the School...
...decided to find out more about the body's mechanisms for mitigating heat and cold-that is, to establish the temperature zones in which various reactions occur. Every morning one or the other arrived at the laboratory at 9 o'clock, without breakfast, and undressed slowly to avoid dissipating heat because of muscular exertion. Then he entered a calorimeter, an insulated cabinet in which the temperature could be controlled over a range of 72° to 96°, and in which the amount of heat radiated by the naked body could be measured. Findings...