Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tentative list of courses in the field in which he is concentrating. Since both the study card and the tentative list of courses must be approved by the faculty advisors and the heads of the departments Mr. Leighton requested that all Freshman attend to the matter early to avoid a general rush on the last few days...
Cautious to avoid political burns, President Hoover last week dipped into the seething caldron of ambitions which Washington has lately become, and flipped out several well-done new appointees. Chief of these were...
...most modest man, Mr. Baker had discouraged all efforts to recognize his services in this fashion. Since last September the medal had been waiting for him but, until last week, he kept out of Washington to avoid its acceptance...
Tiajuana dozes in dusty sunshine a couple of rifle shots across the U. S. border. The track, where each spring more than $98,250 is posted for one horserace, is so near California that tourists park Fords and Cadillacs on the U. S. side to avoid the nuisance of search (for liquor) when race day is done. A signpost says AL HIPPODROMO and a long bar under the grandstand dispenses beer and spirits. Otherwise the racetrack and its patrons are markedly Americano...
...released since the Second Dawes Committee assembled. Though couched in the most general terms, it was well calculated to quiet fears that the new Bank of International Settlement will prove a dangerous competitor of other banks and bond houses. "... The institution to be created," read the statement, "would strictly avoid competition with existing commercial and investment banking institutions and would consider it to be of prime necessity to act in close co-operation with existing central banks of issue. In fact, the bank would coordinate and subordinate its activities in any particular country with and to the policies...