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Word: avoiding (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...What is the relationship between a sense of social solidarity and the Christian religion? If they could feel the drawing force would they not be better able to carry on their work buoyed up by the feeling of being part of a greater whole, and sustained by this knowledge, avoid the periods of depression...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HILL, LANE, AND TUCKER SENT TO POLAND SPRINGS | 3/1/1929 | See Source »

...particularly fortunate that the Fogg Art Museum is the recipient of this fund for it has found increasing difficulty in meeting overhead expenses. This sum, large as it may seem, is not sufficient to cover all the expenses which the museum must handle each year, and in order to avoid any possible curtailment of its activities the endowment must receive substantial augmentation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: INTELLIGENT PHILANTHROPY | 3/1/1929 | See Source »

...dilemma on the Negro question is reminiscent of the mighty conflict within the Methodist Episcopal Church on the same issue and its historic split in 1844-45.* Mr. Hoover's longing is to avoid an analogous schism in his party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: G. O. P., South | 2/18/1929 | See Source »

...good ship Coolidge is approaching its final port. Soon there will be a general debarkation of officeholders, a great sifting of and searching for new berths. Wise political mariners quit their vessel just before she docks and thus avoid the gangplank congestion around March...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTE: All Ashore! | 2/11/1929 | See Source »

...ticket of admission to this field of scholarship in the Senior year is a passing grade in the written divisional examination the year before. It is just here that the proponents of the plan run a risk they have hoped to avoid, the magnifying beyond reason of the examination as such. The examination becomes something to be passed, a qualifying round to be met in the most feasible and expedient manner, for the privilege of attempting another, more specialized, task...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: JUNIOR DIVISIONALS | 2/6/1929 | See Source »

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