Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Plan A, and thus the men who remain will be greatly overburdened. Certainly it will be worthwhile, at least as a temporary measure. to enlist full professors as well as associates and assistants, thus spreading the burden of tutorial duty; and in the future care should be taken to avoid another sudden exodus from the ranks of any one department...
With the opening of meetings last Tuesday, preparatory work for this year's Confidential Guide was begun. In order to avoid any misunderstanding of the Crimson's purposes in compiling this pamphlet, it is well at this point to state them...
Married. Jack Kirkland, 36, playwright (Tobacco Road); to Haila Stoddard, 24, blonde actress; in Springtown, Pa. Playwright Kirkland, previously married to Cinemactress Nancy Carroll, Jayne Shadduck, Julia Laird, announced his marriage to Actress Stoddard a week before the wedding "to avoid crowds and publicity...
...France. The first transatlantic cable was opened by Queen Victoria and President Buchanan in 1858. Since then, in all parts of the world, some 3,500 cables, totaling 300,000 miles in length, have been put in operation. They lie flat and tensionless on the floor of the ocean, avoid undersea peaks and canyons, go no deeper than about three miles, cost around $2,000 a mile. Inside each cable a copper conducting wire, 1 in. thick, is protected by layers of guttapercha, brass tape, jute yarn, galvanized iron...
...Bell System has held patents and improvements, such as the modern handset, in abeyance for years in order to avoid huge losses on equipment in hand...