Word: avoidance
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...judges decide in favor of heavy sparring, then that kind of work comes up from year to year and the standard keeps getting lower, and men who spar well but light will not enter. Such has been the effect of the past decisions of the judges. In order to avoid this, men who are to act as judges should be selected from the undergraduated members of the association, and they should be chosen for their firmness in order to rule out any one who attempted unscientific sparring at once. It is hoped that the officers of the association who have...
...name of Oscar Wilde. We know that there may be men in the company who will wonder whether she has read his foulest story ever put into English verse. Delicate lips do not like to repeat the name of a certain innocent but foulscented beast. Much more may they avoid the name of the author of `Charmides...
...Pach has consented to postpone the last day for receiving orders for photographs from Saturday, Feb. 25, to Saturday, March 4. By the terms of agreement the delivery on June 10 of those orders alone which have been received by March 4, is guaranteed. In order to avoid complication and confusion in the orders for photographs, it is necessary for each man ordering heliotypes to know before-hand whether or not his order will be filled. It is, therefore, of the greatest importance to ascertain at once whether fifty men intend to order heliotype albums...
...have not yet sat, or who are not satisfied with their proofs, to make appointments at once with Pach, at his studio on Cambridge street, or with the subscriber. By the terms of the contract, all sittings must be completed by March 1, and the class can best avoid any trouble with the photographer by promptly fulfiling its own obligations in the contract...
...monetary conference will probably not assemble. France is unwilling to re-convene the conference on April 1 on account of her desire to avoid another failure in her efforts to secure uniformity of views on the part of the powers...