Word: avoidable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Constitution gives the President no power or authority with respect to changes in the Constitution itself; nevertheless my countrymen have a right to know my conclusions upon this matter. ... A change is necessary. . . . That change must avoid the return of the saloon...
...purveyor to those who like mild aphrodisiacs in print.* But Colette, far above Authoress Glyn's tabloid class, wraps her erotic tablets in bathos-proof cellophane. Her uncanny feminine understanding, hearty physical sympathy for the internal workings of human nerves and glands, make her a writer who cannot avoid being labeled passionate but who never runs any danger of being cheap. Of the many Colette translations that have appeared in the U. S. in the last few years, The Ripening is one of the neatest and best. Philippe and Vinca have spent many a comradely summer in the seaside...
More sensitive than the horses, Dubliners went to some lengths to avoid friction. Pale, plump, plutocratic H. H. the Aga Khan gave his usual trophy for international Army jumping. For years the only time that the strains of "God Save the King" have impinged in public on Free State air has been at the opening of the Dublin Horse Show when the British Army team rides into the ring. Not to abrade further the nerves already rubbed raw by President de Valera's squabble over the land annuities (see col. 2), the British Army team withdrew last week before...
...veterans argue that a wide open U. S. medical kit is sound social service by the Government, that it also is prudent business sense. The veterans carry Government insurance policies worth hundreds of millions. Every year the Government collects premiums on those policies. The longer the policyholders live or avoid incapacities, the more premiums the Government collects, the less expensive will be the final insurance payments...
...Last week U. S. Steel announced that it had abandoned large ore reserves in the Lake Superior district. Reason: to avoid taxes. For the first half of the year taxes on all its Lake Superior ore reserves totaled...