Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Paced by Bucky Harrison both on the mound and at the plate, the Kirkland-Leverett Deacons opened the summer intramural baseball season yesterday by shutting out a disorganized Eliot nine 4 to 0. The losers will have a chance to avoid the cellar position in the three team league, however, when they meet the Adams-Dunster combination tomorrow...
Tuition for one regular term in Harvard College is quoted on the books at an even $200. But it would be less misleading to call it $215 and avoid the implication that the Medical and Infirmary fee is anything less than obligatory, for the only ground on which an undergraduate can be exempted from payment of the fee is that he be a Christian Scientist. Otherwise he must come through with that $15 per term, $45 for a full year including Summer Term, even though he may be a resident of Cambridge, married, with his own private physician...
...avoid the bends (caused by nitrogen bubbles in the blood), high-altitude flyers during the war usually breathed pure oxygen, or a mixture of oxygen and helium, for an hour or more before taking off. But they suffered no ill effects because they breathed it at ground level atmospheric pressure...
...educators and politicians across the nation were using commencement platforms as sounding boards for political and economic remedies for an ailing world. The men who did included George Marshall, William Bullitt, and Under Secretary of State Dean Acheson (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). Only a few were old fashioned enough to avoid the merely topical, and even fewer managed to talk of commencement's traditional theme-the way to an intelligent and useful life-without bogging into platitude...
Last week, in a game that settled the white man's 1947 championship, the casualties were almost too minor to mention -one cracked lip, one barked shin. Civilization and 300 years had changed the game, but it still could not be called sissy. To avoid broken bones and bruises, modern players wear armor: forearm pads, shoulder pads, heavy-duty gloves, a helmet. And they have made a science of self-defense...