Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...This enables him to get into the elcar where he can see the play, and gives him a chance to cut down the interference and to hurry the play. The thrust is diagonal rather than direct. Even on plays through the line the defence is thus enabled to avoid being smothered. The same general principle applies in attack. With a quick-starting backfield that is coming in standing up, it is not necessary to rub your opponent in the dirt. A quick thrust to throw him out of the play and leave the offensive forward free to go through...
...ballots were improperly marked, and were therefore disqualified. Where the votes were close, the ballots were recounted in order to avoid any possible mistakes. In the case of Williams and Blanchard, with a difference of one vote; nine recounts were taken to make sure of the result...
Professor' Barrett Wendell '77, of the Departments of English and Comparative Literature, was injured in an automobile accident yesterday morning. He was on his way out to College from his home in Boston, and near Central square another car came out of a side street and in trying to avoid it, the chaffeur ran into a lamp-post. Professor Wendell was thrown through the windshield, suffering cuts about the head and a general shaking up. The injuries are not serious, however, and Professor Wendell will be able to go on as usual with his classes in a few days...
...improve the general tone of the language used by undergraduates in their everyday class work. Hereafter any glaring breaches of good usage in written papers will be reported by the instructors to the Secretary of the Committee who will communicate with the student and endeavor to help him avoid such faults in the future. Frequent offenders will be obliged to take a special course in English grammar, which will not count towards a degree, but will be necessary to insure good standing with the College Office...
...wisdom of that advice is as profound as is our interest in the subject. (Was there ever a Freshman, for instance, not guilty of writing on "My Purpose in Life," while in English A, where his sole purpose was to avoid...