Word: avoidance
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...boards, and by pressing forward in the contest for the inter-press foot-ball championship with the interest and the energy that have always characterized their labors in other fields. We will say here that, of course, we do not ourselves aspire to first place; for we wish to avoid the merest possibility of having flung at us the withering and soul-depressing charge, conveyed by that one word, "chestnut...
...that almost anyone can sit down and pick to pieces or show defects in the best of written work. But, does anyone think that merely because a person is able to show faults in some one else, he is also able to write perfect English himself and avoid all the defects and blemishes he has seen in another. No one will deny that our English department, taken as a whole, is conducted with ability - and understanding, yet no one can reasonably wonder if the members of a class demur at writing criticism after criticism, when they have been...
...that we have been outwitted. None of the customary notices have met the approbation of the new committee. Something more startling was demanded, and the columns of yesterday's issue contain the initiatory menace of the committee. "Seniors are urged to sit for their photographs now, in order to avoid a rush in the spring." (The italics are our own). We wish to state frankly that we felt some hesitancy in admitting these revolutionary words to our journal. We felt that our reputation was at stake, for did we not barely a month since, denounce vigorously the disgraceful fray...
...Seniors are urged to sit for their photographs now, in order to avoid a rush in the spring...
...person who took the purse from the desk in the Co-operative office is asked to return the same at once, to avoid further trouble...