Word: avoidable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...front cover) Astronomy deals with Earth, and with everything discernible beyond Earth. Its task is detecting, locating, describing and classifying countless millions of diverse objects-meteors, planets, comets, stars, shining streams of gas. dark clouds of cosmic debris, galaxies and super-galaxies glimmering across unimaginable gulfs of space. To avoid duplication of effort, to facilitate exchange of information and encourage cooperative research, astronomy's huge and complex task was years ago brought under the scrutiny and partial control of an international body. The International Astronomical Union, undisturbed by terrestrial wars and politics, held its first congress...
...that last sentence Chairman Doughton expressed the feeling of a large conservative wing of Democratic Congress-men-those who do not care to be tagged with the label of "soaking the rich." To 'avoid that label many a Congressman would like to see the President's tax proposals broadened to include others than multimillionaires. Progressive Senator La Follette favors reducing personal income tax exemptions. Republican Senator Arthur Vandenberg of Michigan asserted...
Until he is three or four years old, no child tells a willful lie, although he may make mistakes simply because he does not know how to state a particular fact. After that age a child may lie to gain some advantage or to avoid some unpleasantness...
...fixed policy to continue to treat the bondholders of all our securities equally and uniformly, to afford any holder of any gold clause security, who thinks he could by any possibility sustain any loss in the future, an opportunity to put himself immediately in a position to avoid such future loss, and to remove all possibility of any suits designed to hamper the Government in administering the public debt...
...George B. McDougall of California's Department of Public Works announced: "Two-thirds of our school buildings have been reconstructed so as to avoid the dangers of a quake to their pupils...