Word: avoidable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which will probably be sent to the Judiciary Committee of the Senate and House of the National Congress, circulated during most of last week, and thus far has been confined to students only. No faculty members have signed yet, and the general attitude among the faculty has been to avoid all public comment...
...technical schools and for others who have done advanced work in some special field and who desire to acquire a broad knowledge of the practical problems of government as a means of entering the public service and advancing to positions of importance in it. "The school will carefully avoid becoming a place of vocational training in the narrow sense", says the Crimson. "It will seek to provide a thorough grounding in the fundamental principles and problems of public administration without reference to the branch of the public service which its graduates may enter, although it is expected that career...
...Homerville, Ga., 24-year-old Garage Proprietor William ⅝ Smith explained that his father had given him the name ⅝ to avoid mail mixups...
...class with his Dorla) and William have aided him. Chiefly to them is credited the idea of having the steering runner at the front instead of stern so that when the wind lifts the rear end off the ice, the pilot can still steer and so avoid dangerous spins...
...Deane, arrived in Paris to buy munitions, Beaumarchais said nothing about the money, arranged instead through a dummy company of his own to exchange munitions for tobacco. Paine refused to believe Deane's story, called him a "plodding, plotting, cringing mercenary," and Congress got rid of Paine to avoid exposing France's breach of treaty with England over the loan...