Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...passed it, caught it, spun it into the basket for the first score. They took heart when, at the end of the first quarter, Passaic led by four points. For the rest of the game, they sat with cold palms, dry throats, while their team fought in vain to avoid the overthrow which certainly menaced...
...rapidly increasing his fortune, Gailo has confounded those who declare that no company can give grand opera in the U. S. at $3 a ticket and avoid bankruptcy (TIME, Oct. 1, 1923). He has kept other irons simmering. He managed an unsuccessful English light-opera company, built around De Wolf Hopper; he managed the eternal Eleonora Duse in her last U. S. tour; the incomparable Anna Pavlowa has been under his direction. Next year, he will manage the Manhattan Police Band...
Arthur W. Cutten of Illinois, trader in grain, reputed to have made 15 million on paper in the present bull market, is celebrated for his efforts to avoid celebrity, to hide his light under a bushel...
...Medical Association has complete information on all licensed physicians and more than 100,000 cross-indexed cards containing information concerning quacks, cultists and nostrums of various kinds - information kept not for physicians but for the benefit of the public. He suggested that newspapers avail themselves of this information to avoid being duped by egregious quacks...
...Detroit Arena tilted a young Quixote, one Sage. Bravely the youth attacked. Idly, effortlessly, swung the arms of Greb, click-clack, like flails that spin in the wind. Sage, well-schooled in the naked tourney of this latterday, postured, lunged, but when he set himself to avoid one swinging flail, another descended unseen, caught him unchivalrous buffets. For twelve rounds, though out-pointed in every one, he kept returning to the hopeless encounter...