Word: avoidable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pittsburgh last week during the American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting (see p. 50) Dr. Hooton delivered a tart ultimatum : "What we must avoid is a progressive deterioration of mankind as a result of the reckless and copious breeding of protected inferiors. We have not the knowledge to breed supermen, but we can limit the reproduction of criminals and mental defectives. Let us cease to delude ourselves that education, religion or other measures of social amelioration can transform base metal into gold. Public enemies must be destroyed-not reformed...
...next few months are of immense significance to Europe's peace of mind. Will France remain on the gold standard? Will she avoid the perils of Fascism? Will Germans be satisfied with "Ersatz" food and clothing? Will Hitler, in the event of popular endorsement in the Saar, consent to Austria's independence? These questions are but the most pressing at the moment. In their settlement lies the future of modern Europe...
...hourly rate of forty-one cents--some 18 per cent below the minimum established by the University Employment Office. So that in threatening a clean sweep of student waiters' jobs, with a resultant corps of entirely professional waitresses, the authorities are motivated primarily by the desire to avoid investigation and publicity...
...munitions business was small fry compared to the foreign business, the Senators headed by North Dakota's Nye were not ready, however, to abandon such a popular subject. Last week, therefore, they rang their curtain up again and set out on a new tack. Their purpose was to avoid international complications and confine their efforts to getting something on U. S. munitions makers. Ranged before them for examination were Vice Chairman Irénée du Pont of E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., nonchalantly blowing smoke rings at his inquisitors; President Samuel M. Stone of Colt's Patent Fire...
Though little is gained by comparison with his earlier pictures, it is hard to avoid the feeling that "Kid Millions" is not up to the usual Cantor...