Word: avoidable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...about to tell you must not be interpreted in an absolute sense, but merely as my viewpoint after long and diligent study of the situation. If no unforeseen and irreparable events, such as war, occur-and Italy has done, is doing and will do everything possible to avoid war-if the phases of the economic phenomenon are not disturbed by extraneous elements, then we are already leaving the night behind us and are walking toward the dawn. In other words the crisis has now touched its culminating point with the new American crashes...
...last week Special Police-man Julius Fuchs nabbed a man attempting to sneak into the subway without paying. In court the ride-stealer, William Cummings of Norfolk, Va., said: "I'm secretary of the Norfolk Railway Co. and I wanted to see whether it would be easy to avoid paying a fare on the New York subway line." He was fined $3, rode off in a taxicab...
...fact that out of nine men chosen to speak on the Soviet eight should have been more than academically interested is distinctly unfortunate for the Williamstown Institute of Politics. The best education is nourished in liberalism. Any school for the improvement of political thought especially in international politics, must avoid even the appearance of prejudice or lose its influence...
...because it wanted such publicity but because it could not avoid it under the Federal Corrupt Practices Act, the Republican National Committee last week filed with Congress a statement of its political revenue from June to September, together with a list of its big contributing patrons. Total G. O. P. contributions reported...
Weaslers. Sitting on the fence itself are the weaslers whose catchpenny slogan is "Law Enforcement." They actively avoid a binding stand on the basic question as long as possible. A referendum weasler is Senator Metcalf who puts off a declaration of his position until he sees how his Rhode Island votes this year. The "neutral" weasler who says...