Word: avoider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This is the only time during the year that someone will approach you for a contribution. And every contributor can designate where his money will go, even to a recognized charity that isn't on the list. This year the campaign is starting early to avoid the mid-term rush, so dig down in your pocket and give generously...
...rocket ship is to avoid collisions with meteors, said Dr. Fred L. Whipple, chairman of Harvard's department of astronomy, it should keep pretty well out of the orbits of the earth and the comets, and particularly try to detour around the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. But a collision with a meteor won't necessarily be fatal. "Most penetration," said Dr. Whipple, "could be eliminated by a 'meteor bumper,' a second skin of small thickness a short distance outside the true skin of the ship. Meteorites would explode on that bumper and lose most...
Churchill, in the words of a friend, "wants sweat and tears, in order to avoid the blood-and so that when we think of Great Britain we don't have to visualize the first word in inverted commas...
...Massine. In the wings, frantic Ballet Master Frederic Franklin told his dancers: "Go slow . . . Don't listen to the music, just go on when I tell you." The critic of the Detroit Times described the usually bouncy exits as like "the pussyfooting lope one takes when, trying to avoid "waking the baby...
Gordon W. Allport '19, replied, saying "How are you going to qualify the term 'plebeian'. . . the first lesson in social science is to avoid overgeneralization. The main weakness of the book lies in its reliance on general statements and undefined terms." He said that he had met only very few pedagogues of the type Mills describes...