Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...drives will be pointedly omitted. This time no church bells will toll as a "dirge for slackers"; no "four-minute men" will yell at pedestrians through megaphones; no persistent Boy Scouts will push doorbells; no grisly posters will scare moppets. This time the Treasury will avoid high-pressure salesmanship, lure savings by a simple but fast-moving patriotic appeal. Some details...
Although most of these facts concerning the students are revealed in the complicated information blanks, additional information is secured in the interviews with the House tutors. These interviews are very important, and all men are urged to make appointments as soon as possible to avoid the last minute rush. As an interview is not at all binding, you can see tutors from more than two Houses if you wish...
...plan for relief, however ingenious, could avoid helping the Germans indirectly if not directly. Germans would continue to remove surpluses from conquered countries, particularly where aid was given. A blockade was not a blockade unless it blockaded...
...subway windows and pillars stickers with slogans such as Defend the Soviet Union and All Out May Day. Comrades had to get permission to travel, do scholarly research, study for higher degrees. The comrades mortally feared detection; one even wore gloves when he edited a campus Communist sheet, to avoid leaving fingerprints...
Second was scrap, for which OPM set a price ceiling at $20 a ton. Third was lumber, which Price Commissioner Leon Henderson had already forced down below $25 a thousand board foot (TIME, Feb. 3). Last week, to avoid future dislocation, the Government talked of acquiring its own stock pile...