Word: avoidable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...felt a little out of it when he met his employed friends. He would say: "Oh, I'm all right. I'm just trying to decide if I'll take this job or that." But after two weeks more he was ducking around corners to avoid the same people, for he was proud. At the end of three months, he stayed away from the reproachful glances of his family as much as possible, though in mid-summer of this year he suffered the humiliation of moving them into two furnished rooms. In September, his savings were...
...their fitness for college. It seems a sensible notion. In any group of boys of college age there will naturally be a certain amount of emotional stress and strain--it is up to the College which is their parent for that interval to see what it can do to avoid the waste and failure which is incident thereto...
...knowledge that Gillette's reported profits for the past several years were not all real profits. Sales to foreign subsidiaries were billed at prices just under the U. S. market price, apparently for the purpose of letting the profit fall to the U. S. company at once to avoid high foreign income taxes. If all the razors and blades sold to subsidiaries had been resold to the foreign consumers at once, the profit would not have been overstated. Upon readjustment of the figures to a fully consolidated basis, accounts receivable shrank from...
White Star, Red Star, Anchor, Canadian Pacific and Atlantic Transport lines have agreed to a "rationalization" scheme to cut down expenses, avoid overlapping service, remove wasteful competition among themselves...
...publisher of the London Times, touring his constituency, swerved his motor to avoid running down cyclists, flipped over, escaped injury...