Word: avoidable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...issue is clear-cut. Either the administration has the courage to stand by the credo which brought it into power, or it has not. It either desires to effect changes which will at least mitigate, if not avoid catastrophes such as that from which we are emerging, or it does not. Though N. R. A. is imperfect, it at least furnished a step in the direction of a better-organized society, wherein wealth might be more equitably distributed, and no man beaten before the starts. To abandon that goal is to forsake an ideal that gave promise of realization...
...convened his fellow members in Detroit, and began to receive a half hundred union complaints against discrimination by automobile manufacturers. Promptly he made two announcements: 1) "Rules of evidence will not bother us. We will . . . let the men tell their stories in their own words." 2) "In order to avoid friction . . . there should not be any solicitation for membership in either unions or company representation plans during working hours...
...World War and gives the clearest exposition of it extant. He deprecates the view that Lawrence's success as a leader of irregular troops came from innate genius, calls Lawrence a profound student of tactics, a military thinker. Basis of Lawrence's tactical scheme was to avoid battles, destroy Turkish material and morale. Says Lawrence: ". . . Suppose we were an influence (as we might be), an idea, a thing invulnerable, intangible, without front or back, drifting about like gas? . . . To make war upon rebellion is messy and slow, like eating soup with a knife. . . . The death of a Turkish...
...cheap new houses springing up in his old fields. No one was very happy. Even 224 pages of doggerel would be an achievement, and Hoxsie Sells His Acres is often far from doggerel. But it ranks higher as a novel than as a poem. In his overanxiety to avoid monotony Author La Farge frequently varies the metre, not always with happy effect. His easy narrative blank verse, with no straining after mighty lines, needs no such purplish patching. Close to prose, his verse is acclimatized to the salty New England accent: "Gracious to dearie me!" cried old Mrs. Slocum, "Confound...
...highest intellectual qualities. We endeavor, too, to attract students of enterprise and capacity, who want to advance themselves in intellectual pursuits. We have endeavored to give wide freedom to the members of our faculty, especially in the fields in which they are experts. We have endeavored to avoid programs and the acceptance of gifts contingent upon the maintenance of rigid lines of thought in social, political or religious questions. We at Stanford consider that the power to grow and change with each generation is the hope of the University