Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...order to avoid any chance of overcrowding the limited floor-space of the Freshman Athletic Building, the authorities have decided to sell reserved seats...
...bell-tower or purely memorial structure to the already polymorphic architecture of the Yard would merely increase the existing aesthetic confusion, a circumstance which would detract appreciably from the dignity of its purpose. A larger and more beautiful chapel would both serve the end of a memorial and avoid the stigma of utilitarianism...
...including Weld estate, on the line between Brookline and West Roxbury, on which an 18-hole course has been laid out. Approximately $350,000 have been invested. The stock holders plan to sell shares in the club which will carry with them the privileges of the course and thus avoid the exorbitant initiation fees and annual dues of the ordinary country club...
...philosophers are rare in these materialistic days, it is no less true that philosophy is something at which to shy--and avoid, if possible, in mapping out college courses. In a time of intense practical activity it is observed that thought and theory fail to keep pace with the trend of events; but if history has showed this tendency in the past, that fact is no argument against an attempt to formulate a philosophy for the present. For even such practical social programs as those presented by Socialists, Liberals, and Conservatives there is but a feeble attempt at a crystallization...
Effort is made to avoid these ill effects by having men who work under heavy air pressure gradually removed from it; but ever and again, through accident or carelessness, it occurs...