Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...such rationalizing could not change the fact that by aiding Russia, Britain was incurring immediate military risk, the U.S. was seeking to avoid...
...hardly avoid saying what does pot need to be said, that Professor Kittredge was probably the most widely learned literary scholar this country has had, and that his death marks the end of an era in scholarship as well as in the history of Harvard University...
...Shakespeare, which since I was full of them at the time. I had also discussed with several other people. No one else saw so quickly or so clearly just what it was I was after, and no one else gave me such sound advice about the pitfalls I should avoid...
...rather then the Harpo Marx of the show in question. The investigation has rumbled along on an anti-British, anti-Semitic, anti-foreign-born campaign, stopping along the way to take a few digs at both the President and Mr. Willkie. The thoroughness with which the committee sought to avoid the truth was typified by Senator Nye's admission that most of the members of the committee had seen none of the movies that they alleged were pushing the United States to the brink...
Because the concerts are primarily for officers and students of the University living in or near Cambridge they have prior option on the tickets, allotted by college seniority. All applications for tickets must be in by tomorrow to avoid the federal tax which goes into effect October...