Word: avoidable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cockfight in the Canawaugus Inn last week was unusual only because it was interrupted in a way which cockers are usually clever enough to avoid. Otherwise it greatly resembled hundreds of others held every week all over the U. S. where the sport is illegal in almost every state...
...process's official name, was evolved by capable, burly Ruth Faison Shaw at her experimental school for British & U. S. children in Rome. Her primary interest was more therapeutic than artistic. She wanted to give her pupils the simplest and most direct method of self-expression to avoid the element of fear induced by tools that the child feels incapable of mastering. Spreading paint with the bare hands was an obvious idea but ordinary paints have obvious disadvantages. Fingerpaints, Miss Shaw's own invention, are made with harmless earth, pigments and a cold-creamy substance, all of which...
...Atlantic City last June, Floyd Leslie Carlisle served notice on the N. E. L. A. that it must purge itself if it wished to avoid stringent Federal supervision. Floyd Carlisle comes from that centre of natural power, upstate New York. He is the robust board chairman of six companies (one of them, Niagara Hudson, is world's largest producer), speaks for the Morgan utility interests, is the nation's No. 1 power tycoon. Last week he and Board Chairman Bernard Capen Cobb of Commonwealth & Southern Corp. did something about it. They invited the nation's utility tycoons...
...fool, War Lord Tang kept his whereabouts in Jehol a secret, last week, to avoid being bombed by Japanese planes. He used a portable wireless transmitter to give orders to his generals. For not selling out to Japan he was hailed as a hero in far distant teeming Chinese cities where heroism begins again, after centuries, to be fashionable...
...were constructed. The mechanic in charge of a steam crane gets drunk. The Russian foreman orders him out of the cab and climbs in himself. With very little knowledge of how the contraption will react, he begins to pull its levers, manages, by the skin of his teeth, to avoid dropping several tons of cement on his underlings. Men and Jobs is not. essentially, entertainment, but it is a striking and intelligent advertisement for the Five-Year Plan. Good shot: the Russian foreman making a speech in which he tries to explain how, after all, he and his workmen have...