Word: avoidable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Attorney General forthwith declared the special license valid for plants not on navigable streams. To support his interpretation of the Water Power Act, he declared that if the law were read so as to permit no escape from Federal valuation of hydroelectric property, it would be impossible "to avoid serious questions regarding the constitutionality of this act." Thus he dealt a distinct blow to those who favor Government regulation, and even operation, of power companies...
...with glee that the highest mark received by any of these men was 55 and that one of the students was able to amass a total only nine points lower. Most pleasing, however, to the editors of the paper is the fact that several of their taskmasters would fain avoid answering the questions put to them and attempted to pass the buck to a colleague...
...have pledged our determination and our hearts blood to avoid similar fatalities, and we desire a change of tactical policy that will result in meeting the bandits in actual mountain warfare and opposing them with the same methods as they themselves...
...following the advice of the writer of these articles. Seniors will avoid the unhappiness arising from ignorance of the right idea about business methods, and will better equip themselves to combat the difficulties of securing their first positions in the present period of extreme depression...
...other sport. It is by no means an overemphasis of athletics that Harvard should admit the failure of what was admittedly an experiment. It is unfortunate, however, that the Yale-Harvard series should find one team with, and the other without a coach on the bench. If only to avoid unpleasant discussion, both teams should certainly play these games under similar conditions...