Word: avoidable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...consider," said the majority of the delegation. "that monetary policy, designed to avoid violent fluctuations of purchasing power, should be based upon a variety of considerations interpreted by the judgment of central banks and expressed in national policies arrived at after due consideration and cooperative consultation concerning their international repercussions. Movements of the index numbers of wholesale prices should be used, not as a single determinant of immediate policy, but as one among many factors to be taken into consideration...
Tenth, an effort should be made to avoid the difficulties of foreign exchange reserves by using an international institution like the Bank for International Settlements in Switzerland as an agreed where the assets of gold-exchange countries might be deposited in part. The International Bank would in turn spread its deposits in the Central Banks of different countries as the requirements international exchange seemed to agitate...
...slang; "whoopee," old when he first used it, is already obsolete. "Bugs" Baer's small Hearst column contains wisecracks like "ears like handles on a loving cup" which are the opposite of slang. Ring Lardner, who died a week after Sime Silverman, was usually careful to avoid inventions of his own, stuck close to the jargon of baseball. Columnist Damon Runyon mixes authentic underworld talk with invented freaks. Gelett Burgess' The Goops contributed a less valuable word than Sinclair Lewis's Babbitt. George Ade's Fables in Slang were funnier than real slang. Gene Buck...
...like Groucho and his cohorts; the large majority will proceed to the University sometime during the week, with their risibilities filed to a fine edge, and sit straining rib muscles for an hour or so; the only advice to be given is, to go early and avoid the rush...
...choosing Mr. Nichols' successor, President Conant will do well to consider the diverse qualifications needed by a Harvard publicity director. If he is interested primarily in getting more national recognition for Harvard's achievements in research, he will do well to avoid the mistake of getting an able man and then denying him the confidence and authority essential to the accomplishment of his purpose. Furthermore, he will do well to remember that a great part of the publicity director's time is of necessity taken up by routine contacts with the local newspapers. Despite the best efforts of Mr. Nichols...