Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Then keep busy avoid idle ways as the plague and idle friends as your worst enemies. It does not matter what keeps you busy studies, athletics, competitions, self support, social service as long as it has some purpose...
...short one, of necessity the laying of the scene is to be briefly done. The writer is lured into generalities and then, only the nicest discretion in a choice of particularization's will prevent an impression of amputation of the parts of an otherwise perfect whole. In order to avoid this amputation, net only must the detail permit the generalization, but an ill-chosen adjective will irritate as well...
...insecure in the selection of Meyerbeer's sonorous "Coronation March", Mr. E. H. Hoffman '18 brought his musicians together under his baton to an easy, graceful and sure playing of the second selection, Massenet's overture, "Phedre". It would seem better for the Sodality, in choosing light music, to avoid the University marches like "Up the Street" and "Our Director", for not only are they more suitable for band production, but also they are decidedly marred by the uneven, quickened tempo and orchestral interpretation which they received yesterday...
...thousand houses belonging to Armenians had been destroyed. This devastation has been made good in part and the Armenian quarter rehabilitated during the last two years. But the Turks quarter has been shot to pieces by the French, and is a wreck. Last May, the French were determined to avoid shelling the Turkish quarter so destructively, but they were compelled to it finally by the obstinate resistance of the Nationalists, who surrendered only when they had nothing left to eat. The Turks said that Aintab was their Verdun, and they were determined to defend it at all hazards...
...same thing every day boredom incarnate; but it is not so here, Because, at bottom we are living in an intellectual community; in Gopher Prairie Carol sound no intellectual life, and tried in vain to stimulate it. Here it seems almost as though a great many were trying to avoid it; in spite of them however, it persists, and on the solid foundations of this intellectual existence is based the apparently monotonous round of everyday activity...