Word: avoidable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...operation. Half hour before a good dose morphine was injected yet he seemed unaffected stating he fully conscious. Quezon had insistently requested be placed under general anesthesia order be fully unconscious. This, however, not granted for his own good as it was pre-arranged use only local anesthetic order avoid least possibility risking any lesion to lung. An incision about four to five inches long on left lower abdomen was made through which an L-shaped stone was removed from lower part left ureter in about 12 minutes. Thorough exploration of entire ureter upwards to kidney, downwards to urinary bladder...
...just what modistes and manufacturers desire as a symbol of the superiority of their wares. Twenty years old, a debutante of 1932, known as "Mimsy" to her friends, Miss Taylor is the daughter of Bertrand L. Taylor and the present Mrs. Francis H. McAdoo. She is careful to avoid posing for any of the more intimate feminine accessories, but she is always available for such publications as Vogue, such smart shops as Jay Thorpe and Saks Fifth Avenue. From them she asks and gets $50 an hour. Most of what she makes she spends on dramatic lessons...
...such pictures as King Kong Hollywood has devised automatons capable of more complex movements than Alpha, but never one that responded to the human voice. Anxious to avoid any suspicion of ventriloquism or of a hidden assistant pushing control buttons, Professor May removed the robot's breast plate, disclosing a mechanism like the interior of an ordinary radio. Publicly he explained that Alpha's repertory of answers consisted of 20 or 30 recordings on wax cylinders, as in oldtime phonographs, which were run off in the control cabinets and reproduced from the loud speaker in the robot...
...most untruthful things there are." That is going a bit further than Kant, though like Kant, Mr. Chase does find truths at last in moral judgments. Lord Bacon went wrong because, though he had a scientific education, he had no moral education. It is difficult here to avoid making a debater's point, and suggesting to Mr. Chase that Alcibiades had a very humanistic, moral education...
...profits by: 1) paying dividends; 2) building up a surplus. On the portion it distributes in dividends the Federal Government collects a stiff surtax. On the portion which it puts aside for reasonable future needs or emergencies the Government lays no tax. An obvious corporate temptation is to avoid taxation by tucking the fattest possible share of profits into surplus. Almost irresistible is this temptation if the corporation also happens to be a personal holding company...