Word: avoidance
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...attempted to "scrap" with a master of the art can conceive the astonishing powers it gives. When I first saw it I could not believe that if I were really "turned loose," and avoided conventional methods I could not at least make a contest. I was completely undeceived. "Turning loose" merely made the greater fall. Never have I experienced such a feeling of utter helplessness as I did in trying to avoid being thrown, and that is the experience not only of untrained foreigners in Japan, but of skillful wrestlers who have encountered the Japanese...
...example, the wolves of North America adapted themselves to their new surroundings after the advent of civilized man. Cattle-rangers in the West undertook a systematic extermination of the gray wolves which molested their herds, until in 1889 all seemed to have vanished. Gradually, however, the wolves learned to avoid the poisoned baits and traps, and communicated this knowledge to others. Adaptation to new conditions brought safety, and wolves are now almost as numerous as ever...
...present time the Senior Photographic Committee has received about 150 "lives" and over 550 pictures for the class album. Nearly 250 deposes have been made, but as 500 copies of the album must be sold to avoid a deficit, the committee has sent out postal cards to all men who have at any time been connected with the class and who have not made deposits, requesting then to do so as soon as possible. Postal have also been sent to men of whom the committee have no picture, asking then either to send a photograph or to made an appointment...
...five dollars. This year, however, the Photographic Committee have put both the lives and the class history in the album, still keeping the price five dollars. This addition, to the album has greatly increased its cost of publication and it will be necessary to sell 500 copies to avoid a deficit; but up to the present time only about 180 members of the class have made deposits at Notman's. Inasmuch as the number of copies to be published is limited by the number of applications, it is very necessary that Seniors wishing copies of the album should make...
...stroke are to be found in the mode of recovery, which is to reach with hands and body before sliding forward. Partly as the cause and partly as the result of this method, was developed a hurried, laborious, jarring, recovery. The new stroke, it is hoped, will avoid these drawbacks by means of a recovery in which hands, body, and slide all shoot forward, approach full reach, and turn back as nearly in unison as possible, the body reaching forward a little farther than formerly and finishing only slightly back of the perpendicular. A generally simpler, easier, and more deliberate...