Word: avoidable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...best way to get information was to ask questions. He made up a list of 40 queries, 25 from the Thurstone Personality Schedule, seven from the Root introversion scale, eight added by Willoughby. Samples: "Are you self-conscious in the presence of superiors?" "At a reception do you avoid meeting the important person present?" "Are you afraid of falling when you are on a high place?" "When on vacation do you enjoy yourself better in a quiet place?" The questionnaire was presented to more than 500 single women aged 15 to 75. Last week Dr. Willoughby set forth his findings...
...While I have consistently counseled resort to conference and negotiation, and sought to avoid the use of force, there is obviously a limit to this policy, if orderly government, as we know it here, is to go on." "Insurrection!" Despite this solemn warning, the sit-down of 6,000 Chrysler employes rolled on last week along the trail blazed by the G. M. strike. As the deadline approached which Circuit Judge Allan Campbell had set in his injunction ordering the sit-downers to evacuate, 30,000 to 50,000 roaring sympathizers massed around the eight seized plants in giant picket...
...several days observers had been wondering audibly whether the "crisis," to avoid which the President wanted a revamped Supreme Court (TIME, Feb. 15 et seq.), was the onset of violent inflation. Marriner Eccles, chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, had issued a warning that rising prices must be checked by higher taxes and budget balancing. Although the forces of inflation had been unostentatiously at work for four years, not since 1933 had the U. S. public enjoyed such a good inflation scare. New Deal Congressmen who were already worried over the problem of passing the President's Supreme Court...
...Down to Washington it went, where Admiral Rodman, Secretary of the Navy Claude A. Swanson, and dozens of other brass hats proceeded to have tantrums. Cadets of West Point begged for a chance to hang it in a place of honor, but the painting was discreetly hidden to avoid further outbursts. Commented Artist Cadmus: "It's funny they should make a fuss. Everybody knows what sailors...
...lion made a tentative lunge at him. The pistol barked, the chair legs blocked the thrust of the paw, and the beast took his place. More cats ran in-a batch of lions, a batch of tigers, a batch of lions-keeping their heads and shoulders low to avoid cuffs from the others. Crack, Crack! Crack ! The whiplash exploded like a bunch of firecrackers until all the animals were pedestaled-25 lions and lionesses, 15 tigers and tigresses. A tiger with ominously writhing tail left its post, slunk toward the small figure in white. Beatty put his head down almost...