Word: avoidable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...smaller than a pin head, the embryo multiplies 2,000 million times to become a 7-pound, 2O-inch baby at birth. It is during the first two months of that marvelous multiplication that malformations generally develop. Hence the pregnant woman must at that time take extraordinary care to avoid mental, emotional or physical shocks. She should drink a great deal of water. Well-nourished wealthy women who do no physical work produce bigger babies than poor working women...
...member of this University, sir?" Should an undergraduate hope to escape by answering no, and should he be subsequently discovered, he is told that what he said becomes true-that is, he is no longer a member of the University. The proctor's picturesque appearance makes him easy to avoid...
...what not to do. They are told to wear cap and gown in the streets after dark; failing this, and supposing the proctors catch them, they pay a fine of 6s 8d (a third of a pound). They are also advised, not in so many words, to avoid meeting the proctors when or if in the company of notorious women of the town...
...appreciate that some bankers and corporate officials do not like publicity. . . . One very good way to avoid further publicity of this character would be to put your finances in order. "I certainly have no desire to annoy you or your bankers, but would be derelict in my duty if I did not do what I could to assist in correcting what I know to be an unhealthy situation. . . ." And, most tartly: "If Messrs. Reynolds and Whitney would try half as hard to effect such a program as I have suggested, as they do in advancing reasons why it cannot...
Henry Ford, who had paid $100,000 for radio-broadcast rights, changed seats in his family box to avoid photographers. Babe Ruth sat in the Press box with a white carnation in his buttonhole. In Detroit, Matthew Golden, of Old Saybrook, Conn., proudly announced that he was 72 and had not missed a game since 1903. In Chicago, one George Alms slept on the sidewalk in a tar-paper bag to keep his place at the head of a ticket line. It was the "World Series," between the Chicago Cubs and the Detroit Tigers, for the professional baseball championship...