Word: avoidable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...office of adviser in Religion was established in 1930 because the University thought it would be advantageous to have a full time pastor. To avoid confusion with University preachers, he was given the title of Adviser in Religion. Harris came from Ann Arbor, Michigan, to fill the position on a three-year experimental contract...
Snark." Forty-four years old was Handsome Adolf Hitler last week and Germany went wild. Not even the Kaiser or Old Paul von Hindenburg ever had such a birthday. Despite his expressed desire to spend the day quietly in his little Alpine cottage near Berchtesgaden he could not avoid the attentions of his delirious followers. They roused him with flowers, they roused him with telegrams, bottles of wine, boxes of cigars (Chancellor Hitler does not smoke, drinks nothing stronger than beer), Easter eggs, Westphalian hams, lumps of sugar for his police dogs. Back in the Chancellery in Berlin the presents...
...history of civil society within states it has proved quite impossible to avoid the constant use of force in dealing with violators of the law. There is little reason to suppose that it will be possible to deal with violators of international law without the threat or the use of force, presumably exercised by some form of international police. The difficulties in the way of organizing such a body, however, are so great that there is probably no chance of its creation within the next ten years. Further, it may be objected that an international police might be used...
...Akron's aerologist (who went down with his ship) had predicted thunderstorms "but had no doubt of the ship's ability to avoid bad weather...
Diana, to avoid letting down her fiance, goes to join him and her brother (Franchot Tone) in France. On hearing a report of Bogard's death in flying school, she goes to live sinfully with Claude. When the report turns out to be false, she is placed in a quandary which her two admirers try as darkly as possible to solve. First Bogard takes Claude on a bombing trip in his plane, rather hoping that he will be shot. Claude and Ronnie return the courtesy by inviting Bogard to come with them on an expedition to blow...