Word: avoidable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...keep watch on speakeasies or breweries : "Secure lodging or employment near the place to avoid appearing on the streets...
Birth Control. "Where there is a clearly felt moral obligation to limit or avoid parenthood the method must be decided on Christian principles. . . . The primary and obvious method is complete abstinence...
...Nevertheless, in those cases where there is such clearly felt moral obligation to limit or avoid parenthood, and where there is a morally sound reason for avoiding complete abstinence, the conference agrees that other methods may be used provided this is done in the light of the same Christian principles. The conference records strong condemnation of the use of any methods of birth control from selfishness, luxury or mere convenience...
Enemies of President Williams charge that, merely to avoid a church scandal, he has permitted the publishing house books to be doctored to hide the money theft. His friends deny this vehemently. Pierson, they aver, was murdered not because he carried incriminating records, but because he, a notorious philanderer, had vexed some wench's man. This sword of scandal the "enemies" tried to plunge into the head of their convention. But all during last week's sessions Dr. Williams kept bobbing out of harm, skillfully, urbanely...
...Japanese destroyers, the Cumberland and 160 British troops and an Italian gunboat were ordered by their respective governments to concentrate on Hankow, "Chicago of China," to cooperate with each other in every way possible. Eleven U. S. gunboats were at Hankow but under orders from the state department to avoid any official "joint action" with other powers. Foreign governments were nervous. Hankow, richest of prizes, was directly in the path of the "Communist" army advancing north from Changsha, and neither the Nationalist Government nor the Northern Peking rebels seemed likely to stop them...