Word: eschew
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Dates: during 1914-1914
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...that human pest called the insurance drummer? He stands around, enters Sever, and our very class-rooms in his impudence, he pounces on instructors and students, dreaded by all, a babbling symbol of the imminence of death. Can we not even in the privacy of our work-rooms eschew the cringing advances of this infernal nuisance? Is it not within the authority of our excellent "Yard Cops" to expel such individuals and deliver us, so that we may teach and learn in peace, or, if it is our pleasure, die in peace, uninsured? Sincerely yours, RUDOLPH ALTROCCHI...