Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...copy of Pushkin's "Gabrielide," as printed in the first definitive edition at Peterburg in 1922. A blasphemous poem, this work was not printed during the poet's lifetime; but the verses fell into the hands of the police and Pushkin was forced to deny authorship in order to avoid severe punishment...
...making rapid further progress with doctors and vocalists to overcome his defective speech (TIME, Dec. 21), and the Duke of Kent was recently pressed into service to read an overseas royal radio broadcast to New Zealand. Omens were that the whole House of Commons will loyally cooperate to avoid unpleasant subjects until after the Coronation next May 12, and the House was slated last week for such work as raising Cabinet salaries a trifle, including that of the Prime Minister. This matter intensely English Punch presented in a drawing of the Good Fairy Britannia magically raising the emolument...
...rats. Only when the Quarantine Station men gave the word might the yellow flag be hauled down, anchor weighed, the ship set in motion to her dock. This sanitary permission to deal with people ashore maritime men call "pratique." Hereafter most passenger ships bound for New York may avoid all delay at Quarantine by taking advantage of "radio pratique." This is a convenience worked out last year by Dr. Charles Vivian Akin Jr., senior surgeon...
...Avoid Vocational Training
Also following the report of the commission, the school will carefully avoid becoming a place of vocational training in the narrow sense. It will seek to provide a thorough grounding in the fundamental principles and problems of public administration without reference to the branch of the public service which its graduates may enter, although it is expected that career men on leave may orient their work more definitely than recent graduates...