Word: avoidable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Have three good-looking young girls walking in single file, tolling school bells and carrying a Werewolf banner. They will sound a curfew for all who would be careful to avoid werewolves. The sign reads: . . . 'Bar Your Doors. Lock Your Windows. Go to the Strand...
Privately as well as professionally Arthur Sulzberger was in many ways the ideal crown prince. Naturally as retiring as his Chief, he and his wife avoid public show, work hard for their numerous charities. They like to visit with their friends the Morgenthaus, the Marcossons, the Roger Strauses (American Smelting), or drive through Brooklyn's back streets to find some dinky restaurant where the steaks are thick and juicy. Their social calendar includes two invariable annual events. One is the Once-a-Year Poker & Pretzel Club, for which Mr. Sulzberger & friends were obliged to journey to Washington this year...
...rest of the contents are more or less stereotyped although the collaring, of the states maps in particular, is carefully arranged to make reading easy and to, avoid confusion. The one mistake seems to be that the compound maps showing currents and altitudes are too complicated to be properly legible but that can be overlooked in the excellence of the rest of the work...
...Francisco found new ailments which attack human beings unless they load themselves with spinach and other sources of Vitamin C. One of the diseases is rheumatic fever, dread disease which sometimes leaves the hearts of children so leaky that all the rest of their lives they must avoid exertion. The other disease is rheumatoid arthritis (swelling and pain in the joints, particularly in the knees, elbows, wrists). That streptococci most probably cause rheumatic fever has long been suspected. Dr. Charles William Wainwright of Baltimore offered evidence that the streptococcus also is responsible for rheumatism in the joints. In any case...
...eagle as their national bird and emblem. Shocking to patriots are the facts that their bird is a bully, thief, coward, eater of carrion. It is so lazy that rather than hunt its own food it prefers to steal the prey of smaller birds. Better yet it likes to avoid all effort by finding its meal rotting in the sun. When Benjamin Franklin, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson were appointed in 1776 to design a national seal, they chose the double eagle of the Holy Roman Empire. After lesser men had substituted the bald eagle, Naturalist Franklin wrote...