Word: avoidance
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...feel that it would have been fair and kind to the ladies of the cast, to say the least, if the mayor, before taking such drastic action, had at least communicated with our counsel and given us an opportunity to see what we could do by voluntary action to avoid the catastrophe...
...Prize Contest will be held this year on February 15 and 16, it was recently announced by Professor E. D. Ellis, of Mt. Holyoke College, chairman of the committee in charge of this annual intercollegiate contest. The examination has been set ahead two months this year in order to avoid conflict with the regular college work...
Many questioning patrons of Widener. Library will be made glad by the remarks quoted in this issue of the CRIMSON in regard to the mural decorations of the main stairway. Few Harvard men are able to avoid at least a weekly head-on exposure of these paintings and many of them are daily made to speculate upon the meaning concealed in the curiously flat expanse of paint that overlooks the turn of the stair. The more energetic and intellectually curious of its observers have no doubt many times been driven to enrolment in courses in the fine arts...
...Hoover regime. President Coolidge took the opportunity to explain to the foreigners that the reason he has the U. S. embassies abroad hand out copies of his speeches-such as the Armistice Day announcement about naval construction, foreign debts and the U. S. share in the War-is to avoid misinterpretation, not (as suspected abroad) to impress foreign governments...
...desire to emphasize the necessity of economy, both for our new Nationalist Government (TIME, Oct. 29) and in our private lives. I hope that all members of this government will practice strict economy and avoid bad habits. Don't degenerate! Even our highest officials should do their own marketing, and their wives should do the family cooking...