Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Before the migrations, the Greeks had always buried their dead; but after them, the dead were cremated or hidden in secret places to avoid danger of their being exhumed by foreigners...
Very few men who held football season tickets last fall, have taken advantage of the privilege offered by the Athletic Association, to buy baseball season tickets at $2. All men who intend to buy tickets at this price are urged to do so today, in order to avoid the rush before the baseball game tomorrow. These special tickets will not be sold elsewhere than at the Athletic Office, and men who desire them for use tomorrow must get them before 2 o'clock, as the ofice will close at that hour. Regular $3 tickets may be obtained at Leavitt & Peirce...
This policy would have the following advantages: (1) it would fix responsibility for economy and for the assignment of aid to the teams where it belongs, with the graduate manager and Athletic Committee; (2) it would avoid discrimination in favor of the sports that happen to draw large crowds; (3) the cost of tickets would be reduced, and the unequal burden of subscriptions would be taken off managers, who now have to devote a lot of valuable time to them, and off subscribers, who give grudgingly perhaps, or beyond their means because asked by a personal friend; (4) more...
...Coach Pieper. Owing to the large number of candidates the men are obliged to work in two divisions. Thus far, the practice has been confined to the rudimentary work. The battery candidates reported a week earlier than the main squad in order to limber up the pitchers and avoid as much arm-sore-ness as possible. Nothing has been attempted with the pitchers except to teach them as much control as possible. Some of them have good speed; but the raw weather makes it impossible for them to work out their arms thoroughly and thus give an idea of what...
...stories in the number, G. Emerson's "Fantoccini" succeeds in working the reader up to a pretty pitch of suspense, and comes near avoiding altogether the anti-climax which one has come to anticipate in tales of horror; while L. Grandgent's "The Everlasting Hills," after a highly conventional Class-Day opening, develops in a more original fashion; and only needed more space and a somewhat subtler analysis to be a psychological study of more than average interest. The critic of Alfred Noyes displays most of the vices of immature criticism: a lack of discernible method, a tendency merely...