Word: avoidable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only in the rarest instances are students awake to the possibility of protesting their grade and demanding a check, especially when the summer exodus has taken place. Thus the tradition of not returning blue books has become a smoke-screen behind which teachers may hide in order to avoid discussing grades with the few earnest individuals who inevitably return to find out why they...
...Nevertheless, members of the Louisiana Press Association are not willing to go along with you when you say: "Publisher McCormick is aloof and domineering . . . possesses such an aversion to human contact that he has himself driven to work from his Wheaton estate in a coupé, in order to avoid having to offer a neighbor a lift...
Having survived the Earl of Cottenham's cuff, the Phantom III carried him "stealing quietly uphill. . . . I found myself incoherently delighted like a child. . . . Attempting to avoid nothing, in fact, choosing if anything, the worst pieces of surface, I sailed down the middle of Bishop's Avenue hating the whole performance like poison, for I loathe so to treat a car . . . potholes a foot deep are everywhere. . . . Cars with orthodox springing, even of the best kind, shake the teeth in one's head as they pass over Bishop's Avenue. . . . Ghastly thuds sounded beneath...
...Last week Mrs. Cooper Hewitt continued to avoid extradition from New Jersey to stand trial in California for causing mayhem to her daughter. † Eugenic Sterilization-Committee of the American Neurological Association-Macmillan...
...legally to ponder the new Federal tax on undistributed earnings are the directors of all profitable U. S. corporations except banks and insurance companies. Before the year end they must decide on how much of this year's profit they will pass on to stockholders to avoid the levy, running as high as 27% on earnings retained in the business. Last week in Chicago the directors of Sears, Roebuck & Co. made their decision. After marking the company's 50th anniversary by voting a special $1,500,000 "Jubilee" wage bonus, the Sears board declared a $1.75 extra dividend...