Word: avoidable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Libya where they have been said to menace the British position in Egypt. "The League of Nations-and even more the good sense of governments-might furnish us with many solutions." Premier Mussolini told M. Sauerwein at parting, "It would be strange if the League, which was created to avoid wars, should now like a loudspeaker amplify...
...Whether Harvard would be breaking any law by ignoring this statute is hard to say. As it is perfectly clear, however, that Harvard would be charged with being a law-breaker by many ignorant people whatever the true legal situation is, it is doubtless proper to avoid such charge unless serious principle is at stake...
Driving alone in Los Angeles Newlywed Senator William Gibbs McAdoo of California, 71, swerved to avoid another car, crashed into a telephone pole. His injuries: fractured wrist, bruised chest, six-stitch nose gash...
...fact it is extraordinarily difficult to ascertain how good a tutor a man will be until one has to work with him. Here one faces the difficulty of having to change a tutor whom one likes but with whom one cannot work properly. The tendency will be to avoid the problem until the situation becomes critical. However, careful thought in the first place on the selection of a tutor greatly increases the probability of a correct choice The freshman should see that he gives definite thought to the subject of tutorial guidance. It's worth...
...Newark, N. J. told her mother she had cramps, locked herself in her room, and unattended, gave birth to a 5-lb. baby. While in labor the girl screamed so loudly that her father heard. He broke in her bedroom door. Believing that the baby was dead and to avoid family disgrace, he picked it up, went outside, dug a foot-deep hole in the frozen earth, placed the naked infant in the grave, covered it with dirt...