Word: avoidable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...raid from General Franco's Rightists. No such raid came, but before peace was restored over 300 people had been killed and according to reports the Valencia Government, to police Barcelona, had had to withdraw 12.000 badly needed troops from the Aragon front. Heretofore careful to avoid mixing in local Catalan squabbles, Valencia also moved in General Sebastian Pozas to be military commander of Catalonia...
...quite so far as outside horses, still faced the risk of being pocketed. War Admiral, who likes to lead from start to finish, drew the post position. One main question of the race, therefore, was whether his jockey, Charley Kurtsinger, could get him away fast enough to avoid being crowded by horses swinging in from the outside of the track. Kurtsinger did so. A few minutes after the crowd of 70,000 had seen War Admiral lead the parade to the post, it saw him lead the field down the straightaway and around the first turn...
...Conant. He claims that it is an "open secret" that President Conant is out of sympathy with the social sciences in the university and that this biased option is intensified by the members of the Harvard Corporation, namely five corporation lawyers and a fashionable physician who are out to avoid all unfavorable publicity...
Motorists of the State suffer further by the inferior gasoline as taxes encourage bootlegging. For example, an unscrupulous dealer in Hancock County might mix kerosene with his gasoline, and thus avoid a considerable part of the State and county taxes amounting to 9?. The amount he would avoid would depend upon the extent of the adulteration. . . . All Mississippi motorists pay plenty for their gasoline. Some pay a lot more than they think. CAL LEWIS...
...enthusiasm for capitalizing their similarity of appearance to fool acquaintances. When not practicing this hobby, the Mauchs are easily distinguish able. Billy wears glasses. Contrary to legend, Mrs. Mauch can always tell her sons apart when they are awake. She sometimes makes a mistake when both are asleep. To avoid waking the wrong twin the morning when only one has to go to work early, the Mauch family has worked out a system. The Mauch who has worked late the night before leaves make-up on his arm. Only the clean twin is disturbed next...