Word: avoidable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Frankfurter Zeitung: "The United States is merging more & more into a politico-moral autarchy which would probably be justified if it were living on a remote and self-sufficient island." The German Foreign Office's semi-official Diplomatische Korrespondenz noted the President's "egoistic wish to avoid any participation...
Nevertheless photons are electrically neutral, are not swerved by magnetic fields. If the cosmic rays were Millikan photons, they should not tend to cluster about Earth's strongly magnetic poles, to avoid the weakly magnetic Equator. Yet a Dutchman named Clay, traveling from Holland to Java, found a drop in cosmic ray intensity at the Equator. Kolhorster took this to mean that at least some of the rays were not photons of light, but electrically charged particles of matter...
Those students who do not come from these selected schools should be allowed to take examinations which would cover the work of the courses in which they desired credit. This plan is now being used by those Freshmen, admitted by certificates, who wish to avoid English...
...refrains from buying the Boston American to avoid such biased and stupid criticisms but it would seem that the spirits of Hearst and the Liberty League had entered even the august walls of Harvard and had prostituted the heretofore sane and unprejudiced editorial policy of the Crimson to their purposes...
Only European observer to pipe another tune was Columnist George de la Fouchardiere of Paris' Oeuvre: "It reminds one somewhat of the frog who dived into the pond to avoid getting wet in the rain. . . . Our gangster industry is extremely flourishing. . . . Nor are children any more secure here than in the U. S. ... It may be that citizens of the U. S. are in some measure worthy descendants of convicts deported from England, but inhabitants of old Europe are also worthy descendants of the heroic bandits of the Middle Ages...