Word: avoider
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...here, elbow room and all, and I really looked pretty hot. Just then I got in a fight with some guys who I crash were thinking because they had stiff shirts on and they busted in three of my window panes. So I went down the towel shoot to avoid bumping into the crowds coming in the doors. But I bumped into some climb trying to rat up the shamn doot...
Today's Hour includes a Grantland Rice Sport-light, a Disney cartoon, a Pete Smith specialty, a short starring Charlie McCarthy, and two news-reels--Paramount and M.G.M.--edited to avoid overlapping. These will run for the rest of the week and similar programs will be shown every Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, and will be extended to the whole week if they prove successful...
...that the old market adage, "The public is always wrong," was still true. But SEC suspected something else. It launched an investigation to find out whether the sudden change in odd-lot trading was due to an increase in odd-lot short sales caused by professional speculators seeking to avoid the new restriction of round-lot short selling which went into effect Feb. 8.* Lending weight to SEC's suspicion was the fact that short sales have risen from 7% to 10% of the odd-lot total since the new restrictions went into effect...
Originally scheduled for Saturday, at the request of the Davenport smoothies the contest has been shifted to avoid conflicting with the Smith prom...
...poloists are making a bid for a big crowd. In order to avoid competing with the Yale-Harvard hockey match, the game will not be called until 10 o'clock, and special boxes are being constructed. The teams will clash under a new set of intercollegiate rules, chiefly differing from the old in that free shots for the opponents are substituted for point-docking as a penalty for fouling...