Word: avoidable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fall, and superior coaching. At least I felt that I could be proud to play on the team. And, strangest of all, I never enjoyed higher marks in my school career than I did when playing on the team. The overemphasis which the CRIMSON deplores and hopes to avoid, is simply giving to something all that we have. We ought to give it. J. Patterson...
...amount of their payrolls into their reserve each year until it amounts to $55 per employe, then 1% a year until it reaches $75. Then contributions cease until the reserve is reduced by benefit payments. The object is to encourage employers to maintain steady employment in order to avoid contributions...
...Mellon's throat once more. The Treasury filed suit against Union Trust itself to recover $218,333 in back taxes from the bank for 1930. plus a 50% penalty. Union Trust was also accused of "wash sales" of stock to its affiliated savings bank to avoid taxes. To those who felt the New Deal was deliberately persecuting old Mr. Mellon for political purposes, it was highly significant that Union Trust should be the first institution of its kind ever to be charged with tax evasion fraud...
...collector the late florid George Dawson Rowley of Brighton attempted to avoid competition by concentrating on the eggs and skins of the extinct Great Auk. He assembled the greatest collection of Auk eggs in the world before his death. At the sale last week Captain Vivian Hewitt (first aviator to fly the Irish Sea-1912) bought two eggs and two skins, for a total of $7,245, and these added to his previous collections made him in turn the world's greatest private Great Auk collector. The Rev. Francis Charles Robert Jourdain, Vicar of Ashburn-cum-Mapleton, president...
...consider my political career ended," declared M. Doumergue. Thereupon the old man adopted remarkable precautions in returning last week to his estate at Tournefeuille in the south of France. To avoid demonstrations of affections for himself and possible violence to his enemies in Paris, M. and M'me Doumergue left their home by motor at 3:45 a.m., carried sandwiches so that they need stop at no restaurant on their 325-mile drive...