Word: averted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Working like a beaver President Luis strove to avert catastrophe. Timorous coffee brokers announced that the coffee exchanges of Santos and Rio de Janeiro would suspend trading '"indefinitely." Came urgent messages from President Luis. The exchanges reopened. Frenzied coffee speculators begged the President to save the coffee situation by declaring a general moratorium. This he flatly refused to do, patiently explained how ruinous to Brazil's commercial credit such action would be. The result of the week's alarums and pronouncements seemed to leave President Luis, like Atlas, supporting Brazil's top-heavy coffee market...
Sculptor Epstein declared: "If the man in the street does not like the look of it on his daily way to work he can always avert his eyes. In any case, the artist who considers the taste of the masses is a fool and is stultifying his own art. . . . In all beauty there is an element of strangeness, of unfamiliarity, which ordinary, non-creative people find alarming. . . . In my Night there is a touch of the inhuman. That is appropriate to the vast, vague idea of night. You could not personify such an idea by an ordinary pretty human figure...
...eating and balogna slicing contest will find himself no longer a record holder. At that hour the most recent marathon of them all, the youngest offspring of a race long the victim of the inbreeding of defectives will commence within earshot of the Square. At present no steps to avert the holding of the Music Box endurance run are reported to have been taken by the board of health, but that may well be explained on the ground that the community physicians are interested merely in the physical well being of their charges...
Pennsy officials last week anticipated no such alarming event. Many a railroad sends its passengers over leased lines.* Pennsy would not think of endangering its lease. And the benevolent I. C. C. at Washington would intervene to avert transportational disaster...
...otherwise it will be broken up. A dissolution of the Association would without doubt be a great calamity the price of board would immediately rise in all the boarding houses in Cambridge and many men would be forced to pay a price which they could but ill afford. To avert such a disaster is for the interest of a very large number of students and if they desire to protect themselves their proper course is to join the Association at once. Investigations which are being made seem to show that the affairs of the Association have been very poorly managed...