Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When asked the old stand-by, "How do you like Harvard men?" she answered "Oh, I've met them before," and later she intimated that they were "lousy with rhythm." Being surrounded by ardent admirers and perhaps wishing to avoid being the cause of a civil war in New England, she refused to comment on the merits of the sons...
...students. The laboratory facilities are superb. concentrators will be expected, however, to put in unusually long stretches of laboratory time (estimates run as high as 15 hours a week in one course, throughout their course of study, and these laboratory hours must be carefully budgeted year by year to avoid inhuman schedules in the last two years. Biology D should definitely be taken Freshman year if possible, and more advanced courses such as 1, 2, and 3, should be entered cautiously by the Freshman whose previous work in Biology has not been extraordinarily thorough. The first half...
Died. Paul G. Jeans, 42, editor of Moses Louis Annenberg's Miami Tribune since its founding in 1934; when he swerved to avoid striking cattle on the highway, skidded into another automobile; near St. Augustine...
...this material is bark, dig in. Their cages are hung with purple cellophane to simulate twilight. In the greenhouse basement is the Japanese beetle division. This handsome insect, whose U. S. infestation is spreading from a focus in New Jersey, is prone to go on hunger-strikes in captivity, avoid the sprayed plants which the researchers want them to eat. The strike is broken by shining a powerful light in their cages, which attracts them upward from the floor. They cannot cling to the glass walls and tops of the cages, so are forced to settle on the plants. Once...
...Lake Placid Club last June at 67, his wealth estimated between $40,000,000 and $100,000,000. He was the son of Hetty Green, once the world's richest woman-the penny-pinching "Witch of Wall Street" who used to shuttle between Brooklyn and Hoboken to avoid establishing residence and paying taxes while she was making millions in the stockmarket. Hetty conducted her affairs from any desk she chose in Manhattan's old Chemical National Bank, often ate a lunch of sliced Spanish onions while sitting on the bank's floor at noon. When she died...