Word: avoidable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...object of the Government is not to provoke an artificial quotation of the peseta but to maintain control of the market and avoid fluctuations. . . . Nothing was decided regarding the rate at which stabilization will be effected. . . . On fixing the limit, which Parliament will have to approve, it will have to be arranged that there will be no upset in individual or collective fortunes...
...Weimar I learned from French newspapers that it was intended to have the Treaty of Versailles signed with a special pen supplied by the leagues of Alsace and Lorraine. I decided to avoid this deliberately prepared humiliation by signing with my own fountain...
President Baker favored discontinuance of classes (to avoid strife between the strikers and some 75 "scab" students). Next day the faculty recommended that classes be resumed. About half of the students went back to their books. For the time being. Washington & Jefferson was quiet...
Laugher Walker. Meantime, Mayor Walker had left town. Having previously announced that he would take a vacation on Samuel Untermyer's estate at Palm Springs, Calif, the Mayor slipped out of his office, crossed to Jersey City to avoid prying eyes and newshawks, boarded a Baltimore & Ohio R. R. official car with A. C. Blumenthal, Fox film executive, and Mr. Blumenthal's wife. A hat pulled down over his pinched face, he allowed a vigilant newspaper photographer one picture, said he "wanted to get away from all these investigations" (TIME, March...
...Leviathan at Southampton and going up to London? Would he tactfully explain to the British Government, which acted as "honest broker" between France and Italy in their recent naval agreement (TIME, March 9), that Mr. Stimson and President Hoover think this agreement is quite all right but wish to avoid the battle royal which would ensue if the U. S. Senate were asked to approve it? Would Senator Morrow, in short, tell the British to tell the French and Italians that the U. S. would like to give merely its tacit consent to the formula under which they propose...