Word: avoider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Various government and United Nations officials as well as lawyers are now trying to avoid the legal chaos which could easily result. The President of the International Astronautical Federation, Andrew G. Haley, will deliver a lecture on space law at the Law School November 25. Haley and others have even made suggestions as to how mankind must treat any alien races it meets in its future explorations of space. But the problems that have now grown to immediate concern are the old thorny ones of sovereignty that have constantly plagued international relations on this sphere...
...course, definite advantages to training a Harvard man at Harvard for a Harvard professorship. Such a man will certainly know what the faculty, department, and students expect of him. This system will perpetuate the department's high standards, but it will also perpetuate some undesirable ones. To avoid a closed room type of intellectual atmosphere, a department could demand that its members spend at least a year teaching at other universities. At present, when a junior faculty members accepts an appointment at another university, he is rarely considered a few years later for a professorship--even if his record...
After watching the game, however, one might also conclude that the biggest surprise was not that the Crimson managed to contain the rampant Tigers, but that the Tigers managed to avoid losing to a remarkably improved varsity team...
Zhukov went straight from the airport to a meeting of the Presidium. By late that afternoon it was clear that he had refused to accept the proffered "promotion," and that the showdown Khrushchev had hoped to avoid was under way. So lengthy was the debate that Khrushchev and other Presidium members who had accepted invitations to an Iranian embassy reception were twice obliged to postpone the hour of their arrival. When they finally did show up, all that came out of the Presidium was the curt announcement that Zhukov had been replaced as Defense Minister by Marshal Rodion Malinovsky...
...worked out his apprenticeship with one of Italy's best construction companies, then at 31 set up his own office in Rome. His first spectacular chance to prove his worth came when he won a contract to build huge airplane hangars for the Italian air force. To avoid using scarce wood and steel, Nervi created a design in reinforced concrete with prefabricated vaulting, produced vast arched structures 130 ft. wide and 330 ft. long, with no interior columns, no steel girders, no expensive form making...