Word: avoid
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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There have been coming reports, no doubt largely exaggerated for dramatic effect, of Americans leaving this country for Mexico, for Canada or Cuba, to avoid the military duty which rests on each citizen as the price of his citizenship. One might be easily tempted, with shallow wisdom, to demand that laws be enacted to prevent these men from seeking in flight the presumably safe but blastingly dishonorable course of the coward...
...that the Liberty Loan is fully launched, the question of individual responsibility confronts each one of us. The great financial and industrial organizations of the country have subscribed millions of dollars without hesitation, recognizing a duty which they would not avoid. But the extent of their support is limited. They have another obligation, quite as real, that they should keep the channels of business and banking open for the use of the nation...
...university or taking up other non-military work. I think we all must realize that a certain insidious form of silent pressure is brought to bear on such men to follow the crowd and enlist somewhere, somehow. A few men are anxious to enlist in order to avoid conscription. This attitude is in many ways reprehensible. It unjustly discredits conscription which, in reality ought to result in saving every man from the charge of being a slacker...
Printed ballots will be furnished at the polls. These should be plainly marked to avoid cancellation...
...winter wheat crop, one-third of which is ruined, we probably will not even be able to raise the six and one-half bushels of wheat per capita which the people of the United States consume annually. To meet the emergency, every effort must be made to stimulate production, avoid waste, and better the distribution of articles of food. The problem of transportation includes the transportation of seeds, tools, fertilizers and labor to the sections of the country, as well as the transporting of the crops raised. The problem of water transportation will be met in part by diverting...