Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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First revelation was at his press conference the morning the Reuben James went down (see p. 24). When 150 reporters filed into the President's oval study, the words of his fighting speech four days before were still ringing in their memories: (We wished to avoid shooting. But the shooting has started. And history has recorded who fired the first shot.} The shooting had gone on; U.S. blood had been spilt, U.S. lives had been lost...
...Land Is Bright (by George S. Kaufman & Edna Ferber; produced by Max Gordon) is a show about the forces that helped send the world to hell, but to most people it will give merely an evening of sheer escape. It can't avoid becoming a movie, but it might have been a play. It is the story of a ruthless robber baron who amassed $200,000,000 in the '90s, and of his corrupt, irresponsible descendants-flinthearts and playboys, women prowling Europe for titles, girls scouring Manhattan for thrills. It might have lacerated the flesh...
Numerous ways to avoid a year of raking leaves and picking up papers in an army camp lie hidden in the "Announcement of the Courses of Instruction Under the Faculty of Arts and Sciences." Neither the Government nor the University has made this really clear to Harvard's potential draftees. Concentrators in chemistry, physics, or engineering are not they only non-R.O.T.C. men who can hope to escape a buck private ship on the basis of their undergraduate studies. The army needs everything from psychometrists to meteorologists, and a well chosen course or two may open the door...
...have wished to avoid shooting. But the shooting has started. And history has recorded who fired the first shot...
...progressive Timken Roller Bearing Co., a railroad supplier for 37 years, last week went out of its way to offend one of its best customers. In full-page newspaper ads, run in 23 U.S. cities, it stingingly rebuked the railroads for technical backwardness, urged them to avoid "serious freight congestion" by converting all their freight cars from friction bearings to roller bearings at once...