Word: avoidable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...overwhelmingly important to avoid any danger of permanently discrediting the sound and necessary policy of Federal legislation for economic security by attempting to apply it on too ambitious a scale before actual experience has provided guidance for the permanently safe direction of such efforts. The place of such a fundamental in our future civilization is too precious to be jeopardized now by extravagant action...
...receptacles. If the bracing is done before the child is six months old, he will suffer little inconvenience or pain. In the second six months bones start to become rigid and the operation becomes more difficult and painful. Thereafter manipulation may cause secondary injuries which the orthopedist may well avoid by discreet use of knife, chisel and mallet...
...community can dodge the matter of censorship in some form, if only to have someone erase the literary effluvia of small boys and morons from lavatory walls. At what point this zeal must be curbed to avoid interference with genuine art is a difficult problem which Boston has assuredly not successfully solved. They made a real blunder some years ago in the matter of "Strange Interlude," and they attracted some noisy attention in the matter of Droiser's "American Tragedy" (the book, not the movie). Granting the extremely doubtful point that the second was "art," do you know...
Above all, the government must avoid taking any positive action which would appear to align it on the side of either antagonist. Such legislation as the Association new proposes cannot fail to prejudice labor against the government. The Trade Disputes Bill, indeed, was characterized by the Laborites in England, as a deliberate attempt made by the capitalists to utilize the forces of a democratic government in the class war. And when either party looks on the national administration as blassed in favor of the other side, all hope of the efficacy of the government as an impartial mediator will...
...change of field or for a new plan of study which will combine the elements of two departments such as History and Literature now does. Under such a plan the work would not be reduced but it is possible that it would be changed so as to avoid the general examination. The committee, if it considered the application favorably, would recommend the special plan to the faculty, but it is expected that lack of data will prevent any such recommendation for a year...