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...
...established a system of granting immigrant visas abroad so that no more immigrants would be turned back after reaching this country because they were in excess of quota. By moving all the other inspections to the source, the aim is to avoid the necessity of sending any immigrants back after they arrive on our shores...
Last week, twice a widow, she became Miss Eleanor Collins in order to avoid the ubiquity of the press...
TIME is rapidly usurping the place of The New York Sun as a newspaper man's newspaper. All the more reason, then, to avoid expressions that grate on a newspaper man's nerves...
...from publishing in the CRIMSON the officials (and actual) date of announcing the grades, with all additional interesting data that might be safely given to the students without, betraying the "Harvard System"? This would at least permit the Seniors to arrange their plans with some degree of definiteness and avoid the demoralizing anxiety which the present day to day uncertainty produces. DONALD BOURNN...