Word: avoider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Harvard, many claim, can fulfill its educational responsibility to the nation by creating a branch college outside of Cambridge. This, they say, would avoid overcrowding the University's already expanding facilities in Cambridge, and at the same time bring the benefits of a Harvard education to a larger part of the country. Talk of such a project was circulating among administration and faculty members of on a very tentative basis this fall...
...synthesis was therefore left largely to the individual uncommitted student, who could occasionally avoid taking a parochial approach because he was not emotionally involved in any form of academic life...
...enough. The scientists were perhaps more honest about their quest than others, since they continually narrowed the questions they asked in order to make the answers they could get sufficient unto the occasion, until finally they were no longer asking questions about which anybody cared, and so managed to avoid explicit claims which they could not fulfill...
Ironically, this approach is directly opposed to the one used on last year's "Omnibus television program on Harvard. Suchmann assisted in preparing that show, which consciously tried to avoid the "old school tie" gambit, although both the producer and the feature editor were graduates of Harvard and Radcliffe, respectively...
Kielbasa & 39? Steak. Most plants try to avoid repeating menus more than once every two or three weeks, pay attention to workers' preferences, and have extras for special occasions. Cleveland's Thompson Products has a steak dinner ($1.50) every payday; Chrysler has kielbasa for workers of Polish descent. Pittsburgh's H. J. Heinz Co. has imported Swiss, German and Austrian chefs, encourages recipes from employees. Average check at Heinz: 33? for production-line workers (who often bring part of their lunch from home), 53? for executives and white-collar workers...