Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...used to. This time it was that ancient ravager, cholera. Egypt's efficient efforts to control the epidemic produced a web of anti-cholera regulations which extended to nearby countries. Snedaker felt their effect when the plane carrying the films from which TIME is printed was ordered to avoid Egypt. Substitute films, rushed from the U.S. via London, arrived just two days before issue date...
Dean Pollock thought that it was no crime to sometimes split an infinitive, and that a preposition was often a good word to end a sentence with. But, he added, they should "avoid pushing every new or seeming truth we meet to the edge of folly. It is folly to conclude . . . that there are no standards of good usage." The dean thought that good usage varied with time & place. At a football game he had heard a man ridiculed for talking about a "foul" when he meant a "penalty." Said Pollock: "The English language is used...
Last week the Department, goaded by public opinion, reversed itself-to a degree. Three of the ten had already been allowed to resign "without prejudice." Still refusing to divulge the charges, on the ground of security, State now extended the same privilege to the remaining seven, "to avoid a possible injustice to them." By now the Department has set up a more elaborate system of hearings and appeals. For the future, the State Department was "taking all steps" to provide dismissed employees with the right of appeal to the new Loyalty Review Board...
...Naples the Communists tried to raise a Red flag over the city hall. At that point the Reds, having completed their test run, seemed ready to take a breather and check results. The Communist-dominated labor confederation sent a letter to the Premier saying they were anxious "to avoid the peril of a civil...
Each Freshman practice session concludes with the backfield racing up and down the length of the practice field three or four times and the linemen pushing Lamar and an assistant around on the dummy blocking frame to avoid the natural practice "slump...