Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...plans to follow a scientific career, such as engineering in one of its many fields, will be well advised to prepare himself while in college for the studies of the engineering school. By wise planning, and without interfering with the attainment of a liberal education, he can thus avoid the unnecessary and irksome prolongation of professional studies beyond the age when he should begin the practical part of his career. It is desirable to continue the study of mathematics through the calculus, to take a course in general physics, one in chemistry, and in some cases a course in geology...
...exhibited as part of his equipment for a collecting trip in Borneo and Java, some rifle cartridges, invented by himself, to shoot animals unconscious instead of dead. The bullets contained a chemical which, upon entering an animal's blood stream, would anesthetize. It would presumably be easier to avoid than to hit the animal's vital spots. Collector Harris proposed to put gorillas and orang-outangs to sleep at long range, bring them home alive...
With the vast field of art before them it has been the purpose of the directors to avoid repetition and, when fine examples of a period were available in either of the other public collections in Boston the Fogg Museum has wisely counted these as part of its teaching equipment and made its greatest effort to bring to Cambridge the work of men whose paintings could not be studied to advantage elsewhere. This principle has been extended to include the various periods in the work of great master
...announced last night. Clark's former position of Vice-President is to be filled by David Guarnaccia who in the class elections late in January polled the second largest number of votes for that place. This means of filling the resulting vacancies has been adopted in order to avoid the necessity of another election...
...pretty romance. The only person in the hills who can read is Rob Warwick (Forrest James). He alone knows that in the outer world beyond the mountains, women are protected and respected, that a woman was once invited by a man to tread upon his cloak in order to avoid soiling her shoes. Such regard he would have for Barbara Allen (Helen Munday) of the North Carolina Hills. But his father, having worked his mother to death, decides to take that girl to be "his new woman," after concluding a bargain with her father. The two young people escape...