Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...else. . . . Those who have toiled for liberty in South America have plowed in the sea." Phrasemakers delight in the comparison between Simon Bolivar and George Washington. Pedantic historians deplore it, point out that Bolivar was violently emotional, often extremely cruel; that while Washington constantly urged the U. S. to avoid "entangling alliances," Bolivar was an internationalist, dreamed and wrote of a League of Nations with Panama as its Geneva. The real difference is that George Washington was a large, blue-eyed, red-headed Anglo-Saxon. Simon Bolivar was a small, black-eyed Latin. Both were born aristocrats, able generals. Both...
...Wells himself has written an introduction to this book, in which he informs you that "Geoffrey West's" real name is Geoffrey H. Wells, no relation, who adopted his pen-name to avoid confusion. Everything in the book, says Wells, is quite true as far as it goes. "I have kept nothing back from him of any importance and if he has kept anything back from the public that is a matter of his own discretion. I have lived in accordance with my convictions and if I am troubled by remorse for certain things I have done, they...
...house freedom from University guidance is not wise. The college as a whole has proved to be, in most instances, too unwieldy a body for any efficacious paternalism. With this in mind, perhaps the best thing for the houses would be a little more university paternalism to avoid the narrower house paternalism...
...trustees are not to be envied in their task of judging "intellectual maturity." If they can avoid the danger of accepting only high scholastic averages as a criterion, and still not go afield with vague demands for "qualities of leadership" they will escape using two standards that often prove to be anything but uniform. As far as possible, personal contact with the candidates would seem to suggest a good beginning for a sound judgment of their worth...
...years. Scientific interest lies in measuring the thickness of these stratifications of mud cores in order to determine former changes in depth and climate. Telegraph companies are particularly interested in this work, because they wish to learn how fast matter accumulates on the sea bottom in order to avoid laying cables in regions where the rate of deposition is greatest...