Word: avoidable
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Unfortunately for his plan to make the Republican pre-convention campaign a testing ground for his liberal principles, the other candidates, anxious to avoid Republican dissension, refused to engage in primary rough & tumble with him or even with one another. If primaries selected only uninstructed delegates or delegates pledged to hopeless favorite sons, the Republican candidate would certainly be picked by political horse-trading at the convention. Sure that no dawn-lit face would emerge from a smoke-filled hotel room after midnight, Senator Borah set out to force the issue...
This, if taken at face value, might presage a most radical socio-economic New Deal. Japanese businessmen hoped they found a possible joker favoring the status quo. The declaration, having first harshly pledged drastic changes, then softly added, "The Government will avoid needless haste...
...sort of scrapbook an inveterate reader of newspapers who lived in three centuries might have compiled." In burrowing his way from 1690, when the first U. S. newspaper was published, to the War, Laurence Greene's greatest difficulty was to stick to the red-letter historical events, avoid the temptation to wander down fascinating journalistic bypaths. Last week Laurence Greene's historical newspaper scrapbook, America Goes to Press* was published. Of his collection of such classic U. S. front-page stones as the Battle of Trenton, Lee's Surrender at Appomattox, the Chicago Fire, the Custer Massacre...
...remaining symposia are on "Authority and the Individual" and "Independence, Convergence and Borrowing in Institutions, Thought, and Art." Effort is being made in these symposia to avoid the traditional barriers of specialized university study...
...action of the University marks a definite break with its past policy, and signifies a desire on the part of college officials to avoid the unfortunate outdoor strikes of the past two years. For its promise of open cooperation with the Union the University was voted thanks at last night's meeting...