Word: avoidable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Stubborn Josef Stalin was still trying to avoid last week the mistake that crippled Imperial Russia?war with Japan. But events darkly occurring in Manchuria kept all the Russias on the qui vive...
...been bothered by lumbago in his back. His left hand, often broken at the knuckles, has to be desensitized with cocaine every time he fights. Against Schaaf, Stribling found this left hand peculiarly ineffective. Sharkey, who beat Stribling in 1929, had apparently coached his protégé to avoid it and Schaaf pounded Stribling in the body till the fourth round. Then, when Stribling tried to hold him with one of his peculiarly tenacious clinches, Schaaf cracked him on the jaw with four right uppercuts, dropped him with a left hook. Saved from a knockout by the bell, Stribling...
Enlist to Avoid Starvation...
...been said that soldiers enlist in the Chinese army because it is the surest way for the lower class man to avoid starvation. When China was declared a republic in 1912 under Sun Yat Sen, a civil war began which has not yet been terminated. Hope was expressed that a common fee in the person of Japan would cause the hostile factions to unite, but local rivalries which make any concentrated action impossible still exist. Despite the fact that China has been practically without one central government for years, taxes are collected regularly, police duty is performed...
...suspension of two members of a faculty of a western university who were caught in a liquor raid revives faith in American hypocrisy. This University apparently realized that college professors should at least have sufficient intelligence to avoid being caught for violation...