Word: avoidable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...yappers against His Majesty's Government such newsorgans as London's Liberal Star, which railed against the Prime Minister next day: "The grand old woman of British politics, Stanley Baldwin, passed through an hour of humiliation in Commons debate which most Englishmen would give a Premiership to avoid...
...Henry Curtis-Bennett recalled that the defendant had admitted to police that he was driving on the wrong side or middle of the road, saying he had done so because the other car was approaching at tremendous speed and in his judgment that was the way to minimize or avoid an accident. "In the agony of the moment, just before the collision," cried Sir Henry, "he did as he thought best...
...newspaper, she was about to cross the street when she was frozen in her tracks by the sight of two speeding automobiles coming together at the intersection, by the sound of shrieking brakes, screeching tires. That was the last Rose Samanoff ever saw, ever heard. To avoid a collision, one of the cars swerved up on the sidewalk, struck her a deadly blow, turned over on its side...
This question Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain left to one of his young men to answer in the negative. ¶ Observed with distaste efforts by Lady Astor, Conservative, to avoid having to give up her convenient aisle seat to Laborite "Old George" Lansbury who was propelled into it by the expansion of the Labor Party from 52 M.P.'s to 154 in the recent general election...
...original with the student, thereby vitiating the accomplishment of ex-President Lowell's much emphasized "self-education", and become obnoxious, unethical, unscrupulous, instruments of the Devil. Let us hope that the institutions concerned will quickly withdraw their proffers of help in the book reports of Philosophy B, and avoid otherwise necessary action on the part of the University...