Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fast eleven. Coach Page's Hoosiers are noted for their stubborn defensive play, and their four man shift in the line on the offense. The fact that both Harvard and Indiana have crimson as their official color has led the invaders to abandon their traditional jersies in order to avoid confusion on the field today. Just what color they intend to wear in the place of their usual crim- son, however, was not divulged by the Indiana managers last night...
Announcement was made after the receipt of a telegram from the Indiana manager, who, however, did not disclose the color which will be worn by the Hoosiers, but merely stated that to avoid confusion the color would be changed...
...flying low, sleet and wind cut into her. Once Miss Elder, unafraid, climber out onto the tail of the ship to balance it. In perilous spells she relieved her co-pilot at the levers. Two thirds of the way across, they veered still further south of their course to avoid a low pressure storm area. Then the oil presure fell. Part of the gasoline supply had been dumped to lighten the ship in its fight against the storm. They knew that their time was short...
...avoid friction among the Pacific powers by mutual understanding of their various points of view is the purpose of the recently founded Institute of Pacific Relations, according to Professor G. G. Wilson of the Law School, an active member of the Institute...
...home, and the inhabitants of this most average of cities than selected their average citizen. One wonders what convulsions seized the place how lar the average men departed from their normaley, dressing themselves and their households in Indian costumes or resigning from all their lodges in order to avoid being singled out for national, and unaverage ame, and how one of their number was unkindly taken unawares...