Word: avoidable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...filling stations and theatres, which regularly list taxes separately in advertising their prices. Nor did he really expect to do anything about the Republicans unless they provoked him to it. "The Department of Justice," he declared, "does not want to be drawn into any controversy that it can avoid that has any partisan significance...
After decades of crocodile groans by celebrities arriving in Manhattan harbor about how impossible it is to avoid "unwelcome American publicity and the terrible New York reporters." there finally came in last week on the Italian liner Conte di Savoia a regal lady who in fact did not want what the rest secretly crave, and who found no difficulty whatever in avoiding it. A granddaughter of British Queen Victoria is gracious ousted Spanish Queen Victoria Eugenie whose loose-lipped, loose-living husband Alfonso XIII never abdicated and stands a chance of being restored in Madrid as King should the White...
...this increased sense of undergraduate social responsibility, Harvard has shown that she must avoid aloofness from the outer world. She has, with fluctuations, been a dominating force, in the past, in national and international affairs. Today she is trying earnestly to face the new problems which have arisen. We may confidently predict that, in doing so, she will avoid the evil of attempting to teach her future social leaders what to think, instead of how to think. Throughout her history, Harvard has kept a unique record in encouraging independent thought. For an illustration of this, as early as 1692, look...
...this increased sense of undergraduate social responsibility," he said, "Harvard has shown that she must avoid aloofness from the outer world. She has been a dominating force, in the past, in national and international affairs...
...which had been deserted by most of its Army, carefully mined the terrain over which it was thought Generalissimo Franco's forces must advance. This trap was betrayed to the White forces by their sympathizers in the Government camp fortnight ago, and last week they were able to avoid it and get down to straight fighting...