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Word: avoidable (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Technicalities are made to be disregarded during emergencies. It is right, fair and good sportsmanship that Harvard should do its part and not hide behind archaic regulations to avoid its plain duty...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HAMILTON FISH PROPOSES POST-SEASON GAME WITH PRINCETON FOR CHARITY | 10/28/1931 | See Source »

...First time was in 1929 when Capone was tried and convicted in Philadelphia for carrying a pistol. He spent ten months in jail, his only prison term to date. But underworld legend says he went to jail that time on purpose, to avoid being assassinated in Chicago...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Who Wouldn't Be Worried? | 10/19/1931 | See Source »

...chief Administration newsorgan, reported: "The situation in Manchuria holds the major attention of the State Department. . . . Open warfare between China and Japan would present a more delicate international problem for this country than the World War. Ultimate involving of the United States to some degree would be difficult to avoid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN-CHINA: War! | 10/19/1931 | See Source »

...Lynde (Donald MacDonald) and his promiscuous wife Susie (Millicent Green). Waldo is satisfied with life as a U. S. lawyer, thinks "we must go the way the world is going, not where it came from." Susie seduces John. takes him away to the Riviera; Claire and Waldo, left behind, avoid the inevitable until the simultaneous invasion of Claire's room by an evil-minded sister-in-law (Merle Maddern) and a band of orgiasts. John and Susie return, and after a great deal of discussion the logical procedure suggests itself: Claire and Waldo go away to get Claire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Oct. 19, 1931 | 10/19/1931 | See Source »

...Professor Einstein expects to revisit the physical and astronomical laboratories at Pasadena next month, to avoid "lion hunters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 12, 1931 | 10/12/1931 | See Source »

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