Word: avert
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...avert this threatened unpleasantness, the Governor's friends introduced a bill giving the Governor as well as other state officials immunity from quo warranto proceedings. Critics questioned the constitutionality of the measure, but the Illinois Senate speedily passed it. Last week it came up in the House, on which occasion Representative Miller made his comparison between the Governor and Judas and his remark about hands reaching up to the shoulders. Despite these criticisms, the House passed the bill, 108 to 29, and Governor Small speedily signed...
Anti-vivisectionists argued that the moral danger to man from experimenting on animals in laboratories was greater than any medical danger that vivisection might avert...
...Supreme Court. His defense depended on the fact that Congress, passing the Federal income tax law, provided no immunity to return-filers whose income was received from incriminating sources. He stood on his constitutional right to withhold incriminating evidence. The U. S. Treasury Department fought him hard, to avert a precedent whereby, for example, many a corporation secretly violating the anti-trust law might refuse to file income tax returns. . . . The Court pondered...
Such a man, Japanese thought last week, possesses the qualities of courage, resourcefulness and leadership necessary to avert financial panic in the present crisis. He began his labors by naming a Cabinet of solid, able conservatives: Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign
...their anti-social theories than the modern Communist. Shakespeare, Marlowe, Jonson and other shrewd Elizabethans were, it is suggested, no fools when they gave to Devildom the large place it occupied upon their stage. Much which later authors have deodorized is here presented "high"? that some may avert their noses, and others sniff like connoisseurs of Roquefort...