Word: sidestepping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This is not as it should be. Men in this position should be permitted to sidestep the useless rote processes of memorization now needed to pass the minimum language requirement. Elementary language is a field where the philosophy of general education simply does not apply. The forgettability factor is too great and a smattering of grammar and vocabulary becomes almost completely worthless in a year or two, if it is not followed up with more advanced courses where it can be applied...
Provost Buck's recent statement that the oaths are not University matters was a direct attempt to sidestep the issue and avoid making a decision, Bluestone maintained...
...same time allow the McKellars and Hickenloopers to attack whomever they please whenever they please. The choice is between a government responsible to the nation and a government responsible to a few wilful men. The debate is apparently undecided now; the issue is one that we cannot afford to sidestep...
However, the course management assumes that anyone who dares take it deserves at least a B minus, so there's hope for the stout hearted. If you sidestep Freidrich, you can fill the theory requirements with a patchwork of Professors Beer and Holcombe...
Strained Relations."Now, right enough, the police had made a dab at me in 1939, but I had got a whisper and had just time to sidestep. It was this way. The British King & Queen took it into their heads to visit the U.S. while I was still there, and the American police, having learned of the strained relations between our two houses on account of what happened to Hugh [an O'Donnell defeated by the British at the Battle of Kinsale in 1601], were anxious to have a word with me." Peadar sought...