Word: avoidable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...working class opposed and the nations which sent him troops clamoring for return favors. Another powder barrel may be put in the magazine of Europe. The alternative is an armistice while the outcome of the war is still in doubt, and the erection of a moderate government to avoid the excesses either side might commit if victorious. However dream-like and impossible this solution may prove to be, it is at least a straw for Europe to clutch...
...even tenor of Heloise's resumed undergraduate career was suddenly interrupted when a free-lance photographer named John Naegle, then in Iowa City, received an assignment from Editor Robert Pines of College Humor for a set of pictures on the daily life of a coed. Told to avoid well-photographed University of Iowa, Photographer Naegle journeyed to Drake, interviewed the University's business manager, Ed Lytton. Business Manager Lytton recommended Heloise. She immediately accepted. The pictures were taken in a bed, a shower of the Delta Gamma House, on the campus, in a classroom. As a final shot...
...Stanford-Binet, like the old, is oral. A new edition of Professor Terman's manual, Measuring Intelligence, gives instructions for administering and scoring the questions. To avoid duplication in the case of students tested twice in one year, these have been increased from a single set of 90 to two sets of 129 apiece...
Professor Harris will open the program next Monday with a discussion of the factors indicating another upward swing in business and market conditions, including in his remarks a survey of various measures that might be taken to avoid another depression after the inflationary period...
...15th place with Westinghouse Electric was U. S. Steel, which was not in the list even in 1929, when the company made $197,000,000 and its stock sold at a high of $261 per share.* As it turned out, U. S. Steel was a good stock to avoid, for it sank to a Depression low of $21 and even at the turn of this year could be bought for $75 per share...