Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...revision of the recent parietal rules, the President and the seven House Masters of Harvard should receive the gratitude of the University. This step not only proves a willingness to hear and consider the unanimous sentiment of the undergraduate body, but also reveals the determination of the authorities to avoid, wherever possible, reactionary methods of discipline and intolerable instances of police control. In the face of this type of administration, Harvard will never be accused of antiquarian methods of running its own house or of failing to live up to its promise of progressive liberality in all its dealings...
...earnings looked rosy for the first quarter of 1931, but additional funds were acutely needed by autumn, and something had to be done to avoid receivership. The Class A stock which sold as high as $50 per share in 1930, was selling at $12 by October 1931, later fell...
...gave her a lorgnette. The lorgnette made what is known as a "halation"-a spot of light reflected upon the camera lens and magnified. Nowadays cameramen watch scenes for halation. When they find them they blur the bright spot with putty or paint or move a light to avoid the reflection. No putty was daubed on Dietrich's lorgnette. It attracted attention to her. In the next picture she got a better part. Sieber worked hard trying to push her ahead. After a few months she married...
...this "hour of his vast reverses." The situation as he saw it was roughly as follows : The Allies, under Tsar Alexander, had taken Paris almost to their own surprise, were uneasy about controlling a city of 750,000, undecided between the Bourbons and Napoleon's son, anxious to avoid an unpopular move. So long as the French Army seemed solidly for Napoleon or his heir, they would avoid a showdown. The Sixth Corps of the French Army, under the square-faced, conscientious, devoted Duke of Ragusa, was at Essonnes, close to Paris. Caulaincourt therefore was to inform Ragusa...
...President was at pains to avoid implying criticism of the present state of the stockmarket, confining his speculation to possible effects on monetary stability and foreign exchange. Nevertheless, the deadly parallel between 1914 and Europe's present state was inevitably drawn. At the start of the War foreign holdings of U. S. securities were between $2,000,000,000 and $3,000,000,000. As foreign markets swiftly closed, the New York Stock Exchange became the only possible place in the world where securities could be turned into cash on a large scale...