Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Committee also changed the objectionable aspects of the first requests. Instead of demanding blind racial quotas for admission, blacks asked the University to admit more qualified Negroes--a responsibility Harvard must not avoid...
Previously, students living off-off-campus did not pay for these services, and a non-resident quota was used to avoid what Mary I. Bunting, president of Radcliffe, called a "burden" on college funds...
...knocked down three times in Cleveland last weekend. He had to hit the dirt yesterday to avoid being hit by a high inside fastball by Siebert. Reggie Smith was hit on the elbow by a Siebert pitch in the first inning...
Divinity School students must close down their Somerville apartment, set up in January for runaway teenagers, to avoid the charges of contributing to the delinquency of a minor...
Director Peter Schandorff's production of Eugene Ionesco's absurdist exercise in British suburbia fails to get laughs that are usually pretty hard to avoid with this play. His actors, apparently unaware of much of the script's more subtle humor, work against the lines with an indiscriminate cuteness. Two of the funniest sequences, the exchange of coincidences between a married couple not sure they are married and the fireman's ridiculous tale of "the Headcold," fall dead. In the latter case, the actor actually reads the speech, stifling the spontaneity that is the crux of the joke. Most...