Word: avoidable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...moment it was forgotten that they were used in the United States Senate Restaurant and it was feared that the elder brothers of the N.S.L. had been at work. When the situation was realized things had gone so far that the only way to avoid a nation-wide Bolshevist scare was to have the linen marked plainly "Senate Restaurant...
...further definitely determined to do everything in its power to avoid the slightest semblance of a mass attack by a disgruntled and radical minority upon the University, making impossible and extreme demands with a vaporous and absurd threat of scandal mongering and ballyhoo...
...part. Last year the great individualist opposed the cotton and tobacco control bills. But last year he made a mistake by being asleep at the political switch when AAA put a "compensatory" tax on jute sacking in which Idaho farmers bag their potatoes. This year he wishes to avoid mistakes, for next year he faces an election. Next year Mr. Brewster also faces an election and his constituency includes Aroostook County where, because of potato prices, the current relief bill is $100,000 a month and going...
...Chief Justice, in order to avoid an unnecessary crowding of the Court room on Monday [Feb. 4], directs the clerk to announce that the Court is not ready as yet to announce a decision in the gold clause cases and hence there will be no announcement on that...
...predecessor, he takes questions as they come. He does not require that they be previously submitted in writing. But the difference is one of method only, arising from the fact that Mr. Roosevelt, especially with the advantage a President in a press conference has over his guests, can avoid answering anything he does not want to answer. He is a master of avoidance, and the rules of courtesy, plus the prestige of his great office, preclude any attempt to pin him down. He gives out in these conferences just what he wishes to give...