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Word: avoiding (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Designed to avoid such incidents as these, pro-publication notes on the Boston section of a nation-wide bathroom survey were released by a socially-minded 'Cliffedweller last night, in time to steer unwary Jubilee-goaf around sore spots...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Cliffedweller Avows Duncan Hines Incomplete, Goes Behind the Screens Gathering Data on Local Hostelries | 5/6/1947 | See Source »

Although criticism can help an artist to avoid defects, "it cannot help him to substitute merits. Only inspiration, connected with the subconscious, can do that." According to Forster, criticism can never "place us inside a work...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: E. M. Forster Contrasts Artist and Critic in Opening Address of Three - Day University Music Symposium | 5/2/1947 | See Source »

...time your arrival carefully you can avoid the co-feature, something called "Banjo," involving dogs, children of various sizes and colors, and a Claghornian view of a shoddy but genteel Southland. It is as bad as it sounds...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 4/30/1947 | See Source »

With the announcement, the whole labor picture changed. G.M. promptly signed with 3,000 rubber workers in Dayton at the magical new 15? figure. At the least, it meant that Walter Reuther would be hard put to it to avoid accepting about the same terms at G.M., at Chrysler, and at Ford. At most it meant that the U.S. could look forward to a season of real labor peace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: New Mood | 4/28/1947 | See Source »

...eleven, he graduated summa cum laude from Harvard in three years, used to contribute poetry to the little magazines, has been a professor at California since he was 25. He expects to continue his own theoretical physics at the Institute, "on paper and at the blackboard," hopes to avoid "those horrifying problems that university presidents have to worry about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Oppy's Retreat | 4/28/1947 | See Source »

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