Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...after a few " feature films " now in process of production had been completed, and valued at $15,000,000. The treasurer declared that no particular change in earnings was expected, nor any new policy relating to dividends. The halting of production for several months will enable the company to avoid carrying over large inventories in new film...
...Allied nations, said in conversing with me that the creation of such a state was conceivable if France proceeded in a conciliatory fashion. The laborers in the Rhineland district at that time did not feel much sympathy for the central government, according to Rathenau, and particularly wished to avoid much of the reparations of a war which as a district the Rhineland did not sponsor...
...band. Nor does it excuse the raggedness of singing during the Dartmouth game songs which apply only to Yale. Harvard has always had reason to be proud of its band and its singing; if it is to retain this feeling in the future it would be well to avoid the repetition of Saturday's mistakes...
...along Mt. Auburn Street from the direction of Boylston Street had met at the dangerous corner of Mt. Auburn and Plympton Streets, just behind the Lampoon, a Chevrolet runabout coupe being driven from the opposite direction. The driver of the Ford attempted to make the left hand turn to avoid a collision, but the car, going at a speed beyond his control, struck the sidewalk at a slant and turned on its side. The driver of the Chevrolet, crowded on the small seat by another lady and two men, had jammed on her brakes in a futile effort to stop...
...Spalding's program indicated clearly a desire on the part of the violinist to avoid the more stercotyped show pieces that usually fill such a program. Unfortunately in doing so he fell into the error of playing some pieces of little interest or musical worth. On the whole, however, his program was far better than those which one usually encounters. Beginning with a Prelude and Aria from Bach's Suite in E Minor, his selection included an excerpt from a Sonata of Porpora, short pieces of Boulanger an Suk, two of his own compositions, a Waltz of Chopin...