Word: avoidable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...case lies in the way Justice Brandeis handles it. Going out of his way to render a liberal interpretation, he draws a wide distinction between billboards and placards, which are an inescapable nuisance to the average person, and advertising in newspapers and magazines, which a reader can easily avoid. The unanimous approval of this attitude by the court is a hopeful sign that they will continue to aid in the restriction of advertising...
...another Nationalist leader named L. B. Bhopatkar. Suddenly he heard a warning shout, saw before him a large, ugly cobra. The warden who had shouted ran off for a club while Prisoner Bhopatkar was left alone with his cobra. Regarded as sacred by most Indians, the cobra must be avoided, not slain. But Prisoner Bhopatkar, locked in his cell, could not avoid this one. Unarmed, neither could he kill it. As the cobra fixed him with its jeweled eyes, he sat crosslegged, giving back stare for stare. For ten minutes neither moved a muscle. Then the warden returned, clubbed...
...searchlights which wavered fearfully from the Chinese airport. Enormously strengthened by the arrival of 30,000 fresh troops the day before, the Chinese garrison was nonetheless unprepared for the attack. Earlier in the day, the Mayor said he had been assured that no offensive would be launched. To avoid possible misunderstanding, sandbag barricades, erected at strategic points within the city, had been taken down. Under cover of the bombardment, Japanese blue-jackets landed five miles outside the city and engaged in sporadic hostilities with detachments of the Chinese garrison. Meanwhile, the Drum watchtower, which has warned Nanking citizens of danger...
...Isles since 1805, Bostock & Wombwell's Royal Menagerie gave a farewell performance in Glasgow last fortnight and then folded its tents forever. Big, florid E. H. Bostock ran the circus. Last year he was 73. He arranged to disband the animals, then went off to South Africa to avoid seeing the menagerie broken...
...avoid making the senior year, which should be the most fruitful intellectually, a continuous cramming period, the school record and the scholastic aptitude test ought to count as much as the actual entrance examinations. The type of papers set is important. An acquired technique is helpful in taking any test, but the New Plan examinations ought to be so devised as to minimize the importance of such a technique and of a simple display of memorized facts...