Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Automobiles. Prof. Howard R. Mayberry, of the psychology department, University of Chicago, has devised a test for applicants for motor licenses, consisting of control devices directing the movements of a toy automobile through the streets of a model city. The candidate must avoid traffic jams...
These conditions, unprecedented in former years are largely due to the new system of management, now in its second year. In 1919, when the Union was run entirely by undergraduates, it was taken over by the University to avoid a complete shutdown. Three years later was installed the present system of management, whereby the Comptroller handles the financial, and a Graduate Secretary the social direction of the organization. Coincident with this change comes the inauguration of the practice of running the Union in every respect like an ordinary club. The success of these new policies is assured by the results...
Meanwhile Cabinet meetings in Washington strove to find a course that would avoid all shoals and reefs for the ship of state. Rebel gunboats had blockaded Tampico, 300 miles from Vera Cruz, and threatened to hold up American shipping going to and from the oil fields. After the Cabinet meetings, Secretary Hughes consulted with representatives of the Petroleum Producers in Mexico...
...guarantine edict announced by the Wellesley College authorities after the discovery of two light cases of scarlet fever last Tuesday will not affect commuters from Harvard and elsewhere, it became known last night. Wellesley girls have been urgently requested to avoid public places and public conveyances, but they will not be restricted to the college grounds and they will be allowed to receive visitors as usual...
...Hjalmar Schacht, new President of the Reischbank (TIME, Dec. "31), was not in any hurry to assume his duties. Having been elected in opposition to the wishes of the Board of Managers of the Bank, he was reported to be anxious to avoid the machinations which the friends of Dr. Helffrich, the candidate of the Board, were preparing...