Word: avoider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hoped that Alumni Bulletin publicity would draw the balance, though he said that alumni contributions thus far have not been substantial. "We could ask some friends of the Band to make up the difference, but we hope we can avoid that by voluntary donations," he added...
...have aimed at but fallen short of the ideal once voiced by President Lowell:" . . . what we need is a group of colleges each of which will be national and democratic a microcosm of the whole university." This statement and those by succeeding administrators have echoed the common desire to avoid the provincialism that often stems from residence with people of similar backgrounds and interests...
...psychiatrists must have some basic system of values, too, objected Psychiatrist Wheelwright, though they try to avoid injecting their own values into therapy. When a patient has an inadequate value system of his own, "one of the [psychiatrist's] jobs is helping him choose one." This bothered Father Hurley. "Is there no goal or standard?" he asked...
Last week on Valentine's Day, instead of scrapping, the two companies kissed and made up. To avoid the expense and confusion of a long patent battle, Scripto and Parker signed an agreement (in ink) that will allow them to use each other's formulas for a royalty. Scripto, as it has previously, will concentrate on the low-priced field; Parker will stick to the higher-priced pencil. Both companies will use Parker's Liquid Lead name, hoping that the agreement will discourage the kind of fly-by-night competition that almost ruined the industry...
...fathoms, with a tank of oxygen on her back and her teeth clamped on an aqualung, Jane is not at her best. Even the sharks seem to pursue her with not much conviction. Although it has little to recommend it, Underwater promises to be a hard picture to avoid. Ten days before it was released, on the crest of an expense-be-damned publicity campaign, it had already racked up more bookings than any RKO movie in the past ten years...