Word: avoidable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...experts had already been called to London to settle technical details of the Hoover Moratorium. The Labor Government supplemented this with a call for the Premiers or Foreign Ministers of Britain, France, Germany, Belgium, Italy, Japan and the U. S. to meet in London in an effort to avoid a world crisis...
...bids. Systems-such as the Vanderbilt convention, the various methods of Lenz, Work, Whitehead, et. al.-are codified kicks under the table, designed to make bidding reveal as much information as possible. There are now so many different systems, i.e., codes of giving information, that bridge players, to avoid dispute though not confusion, are compelled to preface their sittings with protracted conferences to determine which code...
Thus His Eminence coined a new and useful term: "Technical Socialist." Hereafter a British Catholic can be a Non-Technical Socialist with good conscience, should avoid the pitfall of becoming a Technical Socialist...
...peace in Tennessee until Forrest is dead!" But when his was the last organized Confederate force in the West, when news came of Lee's and Johnston's surrenders, Forrest knew the game was up. His men crowded round him, begged him to lead them to Mexico to avoid surrendering. He was tempted, but realized it was a fool idea, surrendered...
Clara Bow changed her dyed hair from its celebrated red to pale yellow to avoid recognition, dressed herself in jodhpurs, a silk polo shirt, a whip equipped with powder case. At Friend Bell's ranch she said: "I wanted my contract broken if Paramount saw fit so that I might get back on my feet again. . . . It's like leaving home to leave the studio after all these years, but I know it is the best thing for me to do." She declared that after resting, she would become a free lance again, mentioned screen offers from Metro...