Word: avoidance
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...last time the United States tried conscription, we had plenty of double with epidemics in the camps. Ever since then, Army doctors and a few in private medical schools have been studying how to avoid them. The late Dr. Hans Zinsscr, a well-known Harvard bacteriologist, offered one solution. He said that the cause of the trouble lay in bringing too many men together from all parts of the country too quickly. Trying to harden them up too fast somehow set loose a lot of respiratory germs that some of them were carrying, and soon the camp would be afflicted...
...professors and scholars." The counterpart of academic freedom in the realm of the undergraduate is "student freedom," implying similar rights and responsibilities. Off the Campus, the faculty member as an individual has complete freedom of action--with the understanding that he will "do all in his power to avoid doing anything to injure his University's reputation." His right to hold isolationist views, say, or to criticise domestic policy and national defense, is guaranteed him "by our ordinary American doctrine of civil liberty." Professors "are certainly at full liberty to think and to talk as they please upon any subject...
...following schedule has been worked out to avoid delay and congestion. It is expected that registrants will adhere to this schedule whenever possible...
...Good Will left in Europe was Romains himself, and he scuttled for the U. S. Strategist Karl von Clausewitz said: "War is the continuation of politics by other means." If war is only one incident in a battle of political action, Jules Romains wasted his energy trying to avoid a skirmish while the battle passed...
...following schedule has been worked out to avoid delay and congestion. It is expected that registration will adhere to this schedule whenever possible...