Word: avert
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...loss of life at San Francisco was only about 500, and the earthquake was slight as compared with that in Japan. The chief damage was caused by the fire which followed. For several days great numbers of people had no shelter; cooking was done in the streets to avert fire danger, since the water supply had been cut off. A few looters, rifling wrecked houses and dead bodies were shot; food, and even more, water, was extremely scarce...
...reach this misunderstanding. Thereupon the Coal Commission called in John L. Lewis for the miners and Samuel D. Warriner for the operators, " urging" them to go into a joint conference with their associates and report whether they could not come to an agreement, permanent or tentative, such as would avert a strike. A reply was requested before evening. The miners and operators met again in joint conference. The operators renewed their request that there be an agreement against a strike on Sept. 1, providing that any later agreement be retroactive to that date. The operators also asked that any fact...
...wily Turk, "nobody's moron" as he has been called, manipulated the claims of France and England at the last Lauzanne conference so as to bring those two governments upon the verge of a diplomatic break. Even the efforts of Ambassador Child as a neutral observer could not avert the deadlock which resulted. And as the second conference opens the Turk believes he has made his own position even more secure by tossing a bone in the form of the Chester concessions to the United States...
...soothingly on the grease, mud and avert the skid demon...
...salvation and peace; Let the Turks be free in all the territories in which they are a majority; Let Armenia, Ionia and Thrace be emancipated from the bonds of slavery to the Turks; Put an end to the sufferings of the Christian and other minorities of the Near East; Avert the dangers of a new Balkan war and consequent danger of a new world conflagration; Let the way to Constantinople and through the Straits remain free for commerce; Let the American philanthropic and civilizing agencies, and American enterprises be given free scope...