Word: avoider
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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YOUR STATEMENT IN TIME, FEB. 27 "DISGRUNTLED DING RESIGNED" SHOULD BE CORRECTED. NEITHER AM I DISGRUNTLED NOR DID I RESIGN FROM THE PRESIDENCY OF THE NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION. ... IN PASSING ALONG THE PRESIDENCY WE HOPED TO ESTABLISH A TWO-TERM PRESIDENT AND AVOID STIGMA OF A ONE-MAN SHOW...
...Studebaker Champion has been trained down by smart engineering until it weighs 500 Ib. less than its rivals. Studebaker swears this has brought no structural weakness, no less safety. Most of the weight was saved in the engine and frame assembly, little taken from the body, in order to avoid the charge of being "tinny." Design is conservative-little chromium, headlights in fenders, no running boards. It has gearshift on the steering post, many standard Studebaker features such as hill-holder, rotary door locks, expensive shock absorbers. And it gets some 20 miles to a gallon...
...boys on bicycles meandered along a Dorsetshire lane. Suddenly over a dip in the road roared a motorbike, doing about 55. To avoid the boys its rider swerved violently, skidded, lost control, catapulted over the handlebars. Six days later, without regaining consciousness, he died. So finished, at 46, the man known to the world as Lawrence of Arabia...
...this three-year plan, the Union urges that the University decide the question of permanent appointment after an instructor's eighth year of service. A definite policy to the appointees and to the department; for the former would know more surely where they stood, and the latter might avoid in the future such embarrassments as the Walsh-Sweezy Affair...
...career of Negley Parson-athlete, munitions salesman, aviator, foreign correspondent, lover-has been, if nothing else, a testament to his superb physique. As readers galloped through his best-selling autobiography, The Way of a Transgressor, their wonder grew how a man could avoid cracking up even halfway through such adventures...