Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...another of his famed rights, and the Englishman was horizontal for four seconds. As soon as he stood upon his soles the Frenchman with another vicious right, forced him to lie down again for eight seconds. Back came Townley for more, tried to clinch in order to avoid defeat, and then- with the steely precision of a piston rod Georges' right crashed to the solar plexus anglicus and Townley was counted out. "Foul!" shrieked 15,000 Viennese. But the Vienna Boxing Association said...
Coach Shaw last night selected the probable Freshman crew that will face Tech Saturday, and if he can possibly avoid it, there will be no further changes before that race...
...lecture yesterday was the second of a series of four Southworth Lectures for which he came to this country. The lecture was originally scheduled for Andover Chapel, but was so overcrowded that the audience was forced to migrate to the New Lecture Hall at the last minute. To avoid a similar occurrence Dr. Jacks will give his lecture on "The Challenge of Evil' and Humanity" at 2.30 o'clock today in Emerson D instead of Andover Chapel as was previously announced. At 8 o'clock this evening he will give his last lecture, The Challenge of Death...
...President issued an executive order to coördinate diplomatic and consular activities of the State Department's foreign service. He ordained future unified direction in promoting and protecting commercial and other interests in the U.S. abroad. To avoid duplication of effort, diplomatic and consular officers must exchange fortnightly briefs of economic and trade reports...
Meanwhile, War Lord Léon Trotsky raged in Moscow. "We will never agree that the Bessarabian workmen and peasants shall remain under the iron heel of the Rumanian nobles. We will not make war and we will strive to avoid it by all means. This, however, does not mean that we agree to the present situation. The Soviet Government will use all its power to liquidate the conflict peacefully. If its efforts are unsuccessful, however, this will be due to a desire on the part of the other side to aggravate the situation...