Word: avoider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spirit which says, "Keep trying until you win," is a lot more commendable that the theory of "avoid the impossible." Harvard's sportsmanship in dropping Holy Cross, Army, and Cornell from her schedule, is obviously not in the same class with Brown's through forty years of defeat. As for cancelling a scheduled game, nothing more disgusting has ever happened to Harvard. John W. Sears...
...class standings are used for deferment, a student would have to be in a division higher than the top half to avoid being called, he stated...
...play tells of a respectable young woman (Martha Scott) who goes to work for a smooth, ruthless bookie (Murvyn Vye). Though his first rule is that employees may not go out with his customers (to avoid the temptation of putting their interests ahead of his), she disobeys and is soon caught up in a heavy love affair with a tough numbers player (Dane Clark). The two are found out, just at the moment when he legitimately wins a big bet, and the rest of the play is a saga of hideaways, getaways and gunfire. Actors Vye and Clark make persuasive...
...ever more practiced" method of birth control popularly called "rhythm" (limiting intercourse to woman's periods of infertility) is permissible only "for grievous reasons," e.g., medical reasons. Rhythm is not permissible if the motive is simply "to satisfy sensuality" and "avoid the fecundity of union...
Another factor contributing to the apathetic post game riot was a recent warning letter from Dean Bender telling students to avoid riots...