Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Commodore for the first time, in a little band including some of his own musicians, calling itself Mel Powell's Big City Seven. all the soloists were in form, but the real delight was to hear the Good Man, appearing under the name of Shoeless John Jackson to avoid contract difficulties with Columbia, playing better than I've heard him in years. the two best sides, "World Is Waiting for the Sunrise" and the slow "Mood at Twilight," will probably be issued on the same record, and on each Goodman plays with all that old feeling. Al Morgan, the bass...
...Avoid overfatigue and malnutrition...
...Avoid synthetic morale-builders like alcohol, fatalism or "forgetting...
People who make quick, obvious answers and pass on to the next card are apt to be "conformist" types, anxious to be popular and avoid trouble. Those who see each blot as several different pictures are likely to have active and vivid emotions, while those who see shapes only in small details are often repressed...
Originator of the School of Humanities was English Professor John Wendell Dodds, younger brother of Princeton's President Harold Dodds. Pondering Stanford's lack of a liberal arts school, Professor Dodds dreamed up one which would avoid the failings of most liberal arts colleges: i.e., "a smattering of subjects . . . a lack of cross-fertilization of ideas...