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Word: avoiding (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...avoid mixups which appear suddenly in the concentrator's senior year, every Biology major is given a departmental adviser with whom he is expected to consult at frequent intervals...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Biology | 4/18/1947 | See Source »

...find it necessary to visit New York in the near future, Andrew E. Contratto, physician, Department of Hygiene, announced yesterday afternoon. Dr. Contratto advised students to cancel pleasure trips to the city, stating that although men who take proper precautions will run no risk, the Hygiene department wishes to avoid a rush for inoculations...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Smallpox Shots Still Available to Students | 4/17/1947 | See Source »

...Pansy Nussbaum (Minerva Pious) is a triumph of comic virtuosity. To avoid offense to Pansy's prototype (the big-city Yiddish tenement dweller), Allen confines himself to kidding Yiddish-English. He seems endlessly aware of new and whimsical wrinkles in the dialect. "When I am a young goil, footloose and fancy," Pansy once related, "I am woiking, a waitress, in Doberman's delicatessen. Is coming every day for lunch a liverwurst salesman. He is a goodtime Irving, a fancy dandy, also floiting a bissel. The liverwurst salesman is to the other waitress, Supreme Feitelbaum, engaged. With ogling, also...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The World's Worst Juggler | 4/7/1947 | See Source »

...NFTW leader spoke after all day conferences with Labor Department officials Booking an eleventh-hour agreement to avoid the strike by submitting the issues to arbitration...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Telephone Workers Set to Strike At 6 O'Clock Today as Talks Fail; Most Miners to Continue 'Holiday' | 4/7/1947 | See Source »

...Unlike village and city people, isolated farm families often harbored and hid a psychotic to avoid his commitment to an institution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Neuroses Out of Town | 3/31/1947 | See Source »

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