Word: avoider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Kirkland residents who have joined the program--representing all Rank Groups and many varieties of scientific interest--augurs well for a non-specialized curriculum that will effectively complement the regular science courses. The science tutorial should not become simply another Natural Sciences course, just as it should probably avoid the suggested possibility of investigating various vocational opportunities in scientific fields. A study of the philosophy or methodology of science, if it interested the students involved, might constitute worthwhile subject matter...
...this play, Joslin took the snap and started running to the right. He had to stop to avoid a tackle and then threw a wobbly pass to Lewis in the end zone. Lewis juggled it, but gained possession an instant before stepping out of the zone. Crosby's kick was good...
...generally serious at best, down-right silly at worst. But these organizations did not fold for lack of wit although, admittedly, it helped. The last group, the ill-fated Athenaeum, is a case in point and an excellent guide to bobbles that the new "political club forum" might well avoid during its formation...
...added burden on last year's budget was a sum of $8000 for three years' back taxes on membership fees. In previous years, the Coop had claimed that the fees were an untaxable "contribution to capital," not to be considered as income. This year, the directors decided to avoid counsels' fees and interest and pay what the government demanded...
...avoid this danger, most companies with formal, paid chaplains make sure that they take no part in formal management-worker problems, that they are there to give aid to troubled people, but not as representatives of the board of directors. At Kansas City's huge Swift & Co. plant, the Rev. Bernard W. Nelson is even paid by the union itself; he works alongside the men in the automotive division as an ordinary worker, and is strictly neutral on union-management squabbles. Yet he is convinced that production is up because of his counseling efforts. Says Baptist Chaplain Nelson: "Whenever...