Word: avoidable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...descended from Chief Sequoyah who invented the Cherokee alphabet). After a month's courtship he married her. Despite elaborate precautions to keep the time and place of the wedding secret, enthusiastic Tammany crowds jammed the streets for blocks. Dozens of New York's photographers turned out. To avoid their curiosity, Boss Croker and his bride decided at the last minute to get married not in church but in a friend's house...
Less than a minute remained to play, and a badly frightened Dartmouth third team tried to avoid ignominy by stalling for time, rushing over the line of scrimmage before the ball was snapped in an effort to use up the seconds. Each time the referee would impose a penalty of half way to the goal line--a matter of feet. Things quieted down, however, in time for Oakes to plunge over tackle for the score. Harding kicked the point and the game ended on the play after the kick-off.CHARLES C. BUELL '23 Downed Dartmouth...
...autocratic Reichsbanker squawk a guttural swan song. Others thought Dr. Schacht had delivered publicly just such an accounting of his stewardship as he might have made in private to convince the Führer that German economy must continue under Horace Greeley Hjalmar Schacht if the Fatherland is to avoid perilous overspending for rearmament, catastrophic inflation...
Having gone through the tedious process for three years, Annie Laurie Swaim, University of Alabama, campus beauty, decided treat this year she'd avoid the rush. Arising shortly after midnight on registration morning. she picked the No. 1 spot in front to of Alabama's administration building and did her waiting in the cool mornings, hours...
...able lawyer, able onetime colleague and successor of Dwight Whitney Morrow as U. S. Ambassador to Mexico. Counselor Clark warned Mormons of the next depression, "more serious, affecting intimately far greater numbers of people than the one we are now finishing. To prepare for this coming disaster we must avoid debt as we would avoid a plague. Let us live within our incomes and save a little money. Do not speculate...