Word: avoidable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There was danger of a lynching at Hernando, Miss, a month ago when three black bucks were put on trial for raping a 16-year-old school girl. Mississippi's Adjutant General Thomas Grayson thought he saw a way to avoid it. He asked the father of the girl to write a note to the mob. Clyde Collins ''consented with reluctance to let the law take its course,'' asked the mob to disperse. Short time later the Negroes were convicted, sentenced to hang...
...Best avoid as much as possible of the vaudeville at the Orpheum, unless you enjoy Old Howard jokes done in Raymond ad dialect. There was one number on the bill which did not seem so bad, the work of Mr. Emile Borreo, who sings the Marsaillaise with a gusto, discreetly omitting the best stanza, "les bourgeoises a la lanterne..." For these things Mr. Robert Montgomery and Miss Elizabeth Allen are sufficient compensation
...movements and relations once interrupted can with the utmost difficulty be restored; that even in tranquil and prosperous times there is a constant shifting of trade channels. . . . Every nation must at all times be in a position quickly to adjust its taxes and tariffs to meet sudden changes and avoid severe fluctuations in both its exports and its imports...
...Council's offices in Manhattan. Centered there are 17 health-education bodies, including the American Child Health Association, American Public Health Association, National Tuberculosis Association, each with its thousands of local chapters throughout the land. The Council gives them a common meeting-ground, helps them to cooperate and avoid duplication in surveys and campaigns. It also provides a common clerical, telephone, information, printing & storage service...
...Time" magazine. The article must have been diverting to your readers, despite its inaccuracies and lack of comprehension. Professor Harold Tobin was somewhat surprised to read that his mention of Secretary Wallace had been completely misunderstood--the oversharpened cars of the reporter were not quite sharp enough to avoid misstating the substance of his remarks. Not prejudiced against the use of the "lowest form of humor," your reporter conceded to the 400 delegates gathered in Cambridge at least the accomplishment of dispelling the boredom of his Harvard existence for at least one weekend...