Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...modernist artists have tried to compete with nature. Most of them stick to simple subjects like barns, epicene nudes, apples and bunches of flowers, avoid such complex natural spectacles as sunsets, stampedes, beautiful women, the Grand Canyon. One crusty, white-bearded old U. S. artist who has been hot on nature's heels for more than 50 years is Manhattan's William Robinson Leigh. He has tracked old Mother Nature from East Africa to the U. S. Southwest, has painted more postcardy scenery than most men see in a lifetime. So chromolithographically faithful are Painter Leigh...
...rush, as there was in the 'twenties and 'thirties, into the notorious snaps in any of the given areas. Passing one of these unscientific sciences or "cultural" language courses will not contribute an iota toward the liberal education that is the ultimate aim of distribution. The only way to avoid these difficulties is to provide the broad area surveys which the Faculty has approved in theory but shelved indefinitely. No difficulties, either the piddling ones of content or the more potent one of finances, should be allowed to defer the setting up of the area courses at the soonest opportunity...
...suggest, however, that to avoid fighting in the immediate future is not the only thing we want? We also want to avoid an eventual attack which could make us fight whether we wanted to or not (for instance, an attack on the Philippines...
Last week OPM acquired a new agency with one job: to get a hilltop perspective of the present and future, advise the U. S. how to avoid crooked paths and hopelessly blocked roads. Announced by OPM's production director, John David Biggers, was a nine-man agency to be called the Production Planning Board. Its function: centralized planning of the defense program, long-range planning for the sag that must inevitably come when the U. S. has more swords than plowshares...
Widener Library's circulating department, in an effort to save students unnecessary fine money, reminds all of its users that they may avoid overtime penalties by telephoning for renewal. Like most fines, the all time record of $95.10 was due to laziness...