Word: avoidable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...difficulty in looking up plates in the Registrar's office and sifting out the excuses of owners who maintain that someone, since forgotten, borrowed the car the night it was tagged, police have been unable to send summonses to men who have not brought in their tags. To avoid this injustice they started the practice this week of towing cars away after four warnings...
...estimated that each billion dollars would put 1,000,000 men to work constructing bridges, laying roads, clearing slums, eliminating grade crossings, building war ships. Private industry was to get no cash from the Government, on the ground that the Treasury, unable to supply all-comers, should avoid discrimination by supplying none...
...naval operations, rebuked the court for inconsistency in blaming Captain McCord in one breath and excusing him in the next. More significant was a statement by Rear Admiral Ernest J. King, chief of the bureau of aeronautics: "In their present state of design, construction and operation . . . airships should avoid bad weather areas...
...informed that he would not be allowed to enter England, for the time being. The landlord of his Paris apartment held him up for back rent. When he called on his old friend Arthur Balfour, in Paris for the Peace Conference, he saw Balfour running for an exit to avoid seeing him. Asked by Balfour's secretary if he would like to leave a message, Alexander replied, "Yes, by all means. Tell him that a man of his age should use the elevator...
...sectarian. Leader of the opposing side was another Episcopal Johnson-Colorado's popular, high-church Bishop Irving Peake Johnson, called ''The Tame Lion." Bishop Johnson growled about jellyfish and other spineless creatures who make compromises, start conflicts. Let the Church keep the bars up and avoid trouble. Intercommunion would ''make the Episcopal household of faith a cafeteria." Said he: "If such practices are persisted in, I should feel it my duty as a bishop to banish and drive away from the church such practices as erroneous and contrary to God's word and destructive...