Word: avoidable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...talks, high-pressure promotion. A poignant little editorial in the Etude Music Magazine last year related the tale of a millionaire's daughter who was saved from something worse than death by staying home to practice on her piano. Retail association heads exhort the trade to avoid competitive squabbles. Thundered NAMM's President Alfred D. LaMotte in the convention issue of Piano Trade Magazine: "I protest most vigorously any implication that there is any real competition between pianos and piccolos, accordions and ocarinas or harmonicas and harps." Pianos. In 1935 about $60,000,000 worth of musical instruments...
...desperately to keep Utilities Power & Light from teetering over the brink of disaster. At one time its debentures sold as low as 22? on the dollar. Nevertheless, Promoter Clarke, who is still Utilities Power & Light's president, managed to scrape together enough cash on every interest date, thus avoid receivership or reorganization...
...legation at Addis Ababa accredited to the Ethiopian Government is abolished as such and becomes a German consulate, its diplomatic functions passing to the German Embassy in Rome. Amid ensuing international jitters, State Department officials in Washington intimated that it will now be "difficult" for "embarrassed" President Roosevelt to avoid recognizing Italy's conquest of Ethiopia...
...either cash or securities until his equity is again built up to 55%. He may substitute one stock for another on a dollar-for-dollar basis. He may buy more stock if he puts up 55% on each purchase, but that stock immediately becomes restricted also. Only way to avoid these complexities is to walk across the street, open another account with another broker...
...purposeless behavior of post-War English intellectuals. In Huxley's characters purpose was always identified with hypocrisy, devotion to any ideal with ineffectuality or self-deception. Between long highbrow talks, usually on science or art, his characters suffered from boredom, made love or deliberately created trouble to avoid it, were about as uniformly unpleasant a set of moral idiots as any author has created. Not until Point Counter Point, published in 1928, did Author Huxley give evidence of his dissatisfaction with his mood of vast, all-embracing negation. In Rampion, obviously modeled on his friend D. H. Lawrence...