Word: avoidable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Possibly to avoid having all these matters dumped on his lap at once until he can think his way through them. General Johnson is not to be found in Room 3053 at the Commerce Building, as advertised. Instead he sits alone behind an unmarked door many yards away...
...summer home in New Brunswick and a speedy run down to the Virginia Capes on the cruiser Indianapolis. All week long President Roosevelt poked, pressed and prodded Congress towards adjourning Saturday night. To placate the House he gave ground on his pension cuts (see p. 13). To avoid a long Senate wrangle, he dropped his plan to ask Congress for authority to make special tariff treaties at the London Conference. To put down resentful little rebellions in his own party, he released a flood of Grade B patronage. At his command the Senate sat for twelve-hour stretches. Oldsters could...
...that "Democracy in Crisis" will replace the King James Version on the sitting-room table of the great American Boor. But those who agree with the conclusions the author has reached will feel an impulse to burst into song and shout, while even Mr. Laski's conscious opponents cannot avoid being impressed by the relentless argument he builds up, point by point, with more than his usual power of analysis and expression...
...convict who pinioned Warden Prather was Wilbur Underhill, "The Tri-State Terror" who had pleaded guilty to killing a man in Kansas (which has no death penalty) to avoid being extradited to Oklahoma, where he had killed two others. Three of his four years in the Kansas penitentiary had been spent in solitary confinement. He and Harvey Bailey-leader of the $2,000,000 Lincoln (Neb.) Bank & Trust Co. holdup in 1930, who was finally caught while golfing in Kansas City-directed what happened next. They threatened to kill the warden, "pile up the guards in heaps," unless they...
...capable and mature scholar must not be hampered and perhaps permanently discouraged by the petty regulations of the first two years at college designed to help and control those not yet ready for a college education. The capable student is handicapped both by the regulations which he can not avoid and often by his ignorance of what the University has to offer...