Word: avoidable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harkness, George Fisher Baker, Frederick William Vanderbilt and Harold's brother William Kissam Vanderbilt. The syndicate undertook to raise $400,000, which is $200,000 less than Enterprise cost. Proposed $40,000 shares were split down to $4,000 units, but, even so, subscriptions were slow. To avoid further delay members of the syndicate underwrote the whole sum, gave the word to the Herreshoff Yard in Bristol, R. I. to go ahead...
...idea of devaluating the dollar was a very clever one indeed, for no one--least of all the economists--was quite sure just what it meant. While it is most doubtful if it has accomplished anything tangible, its general effect has been to quiet both parties and thus avoid an open conflict between them...
...make compulsory a single joint return by man & wife. This, estimated Professor Magill, would add $40,000,000 to the U. S. income, and would put a stop to the practice whereby a husband or wife transfers taxable assets to the spouse with a lower income to avoid the heavy surtaxes in the high brackets. Again Banker Mitchell was made a horrid example...
...them airily, to raise the question of mortality merely as an excuse for a display of nostalgic faith. No individual can accompany Dr. Watson into No. 221-B Baker St. without feeling these things; yet, unfortunately for Mr. Starrett, an age which contemns lush sentimentality, compells the individual to avoid, as evidence of good taste, public confession of them. In writing this present biography, then, Mr. Starrett must have been in something of a quandary. If he failed to give his exclamation points free rein, devotees would find him privately insensate; if, on the contrary, he chose to bare...
Said the Generalissimo: "I will not resign, regardless of what pressure may be brought upon me, until I have successfully concluded my anti-Communist drive. The only way for the Fukien rebels to avoid extermination is by repenting for their insubordination and surrendering unconditionally...