Word: avoid
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...promise to prove boomerangs. Dr. Schacht has indeed acted strangely in receiving Allied reductions so coldly, and precipitating the present impasse. He seems to be playing for high stakes, and Germany stands to lose heavily if he loses. The members of the Committee and their governments are eager to avoid the abyss which he has opened before them, but there is great question whether governments do not move so ponderously that even though the will of the people were for such sweeping reductions of the German debts and such guarantees of political restoration of Germany as he proposes, the machinery...
...Coolidge sought to avoid the appearance of selfish "grasping for office." Presidents, he found, "are always surrounded by worshipers. They are constantly . . . assured of their greatness. They live in an artificial atmosphere of adulation and exaltation which sooner or later impairs their judgment. They are in grave danger of becoming careless and arrogant...
...possible that these famed undergraduates could be so upset at a munificent gift, attached to a clause that the Houses to be built with the money be lived in--dormitories which read like Aladdin's Fairy Palaces? Even the magazines for the tables have been minutely listed, to avoid slighting any individual taste. A secret suspicion occurs to us--can it be--softly, while we whisper--perhaps it is only Harvard's pride in its "indifference" that is offended! It may be that they are resenting this assumption that they are like any other students, that their welfare must...
...Hoover last week grew fretful. Through the press, anonymously he sent forth word that no spectacular or drastic steps would be taken in his law enforcement campaign. He proposed to proceed sanely, to instill in people a respect for all law by education and moral suasion. He sought to avoid specialization on the prohibition law. Wet observers credited him with a shrewd and nimble sidestep. Most embarrassed was Major Edwin B. Hesse of the Washington, D. C., police force, who, with impressive fanfare, had just set out to dry up the trickling capital "as an example...
...this aspect of the corporative state is kept in mind, it will help to avoid overestimating the eight million odd votes cast for the candidates of the Fashist 'party...