Word: avoided
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...there are a few traditional bits of advice worth passing on, if only for the sake of the record. Avoid blind dates at Radcliffe and that hideous building on Mt. Auburn St.; ignore resolutely the vultures outside Memorial Hall (except, of course, those offering the Crimson); and learn to sneer with fine Bostonian indifference when you meet the people who can always tell a Harvard man, etc., and who, convulsed, offer the simile: "As aloof as those men about to enter Harvard...
...wound shock, discovered in the last year of World War I: 1) small doses of morphine for relief of pain; 2) an abundance of blankets and hot water bottles to prevent chill; 3) plenty of warm, sweet tea to restore a proper water balance; 4) blood transfusion to avoid blood poisoning; 5) operation as soon as the patient comes out of shock...
...Make sure that the last meal of the day is light and easily digestible . . . avoid fresh fish and all fried foods . . . stewed tripe and boiled onions is a particularly good dish for those who like it. The boiled onions have a soporific effect...
Toward week's end, CBS, MBS and NBC got together, agreed to "edit" the news (i.e., avoid repetitive bulletins, pair up varying reports, sift announcements from foreign radio stations). CBS decided on at least two foreign hookups a day, interruptions of programs for big news only. NBC planned to use its men abroad on a newly announced schedule of war news periods only when they had something to say, began to scout around for correspondents in neutral European capitals, in the hope of getting uncensored news...
...quite possibly switch positions with Gardella. On Frazier Curtis falls the nearly impossible job of filling the combined shoes of Cliff Wilson and Chief Boston as blocking back. As leader of the interference and key man on the defense, this year's quarterback will find it difficult to avoid an unfavorable comparison with his predecessors. Other possibilities at this post are Henry Vander Eb, a Sophomore, and Joel Ferris, a converted Jayvee guard...