Word: avoidable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hood, 192 degrees for the Renown. Apparently he thought that without further orders the Hood would swing into the "projected course" and the Renown would drop into line behind her. Instead both captains kept their ships doggedly on the courses set by Admiral Bailey until too late to avoid a $200,000 collision between the two star capital ships of the Royal Navy...
...Presbyterian Rev. Edmund B. Chaffee, now editor of the Presbyterian Tribune, holds its monthly meetings at his Labor Temple in radical 14th Street (TIME, Sept. 24). Though the union members know that ministers' salaries are unstable, averaging $2,500 a year throughout the U. S., they sedulously avoid suggesting that raising them is their aim. Their stated purpose is to express religion's approval of ''the right and necessity of organization on the part of all those who labor with hand and brain." Likewise they wish to promote the use of union goods and services...
...Once again the gifted phrasemaker and champion of Reform, he cried: "I am against private Socialism of concentrated private power as thoroughly as I am against Governmental Socialism. The one is equally as dangerous as the other; and destruction of private Socialism is utterly essential to avoid Governmental Socialism...
...national points of view have developed since the negotiations of those treaties, as evidenced by the recent notice of Japan to terminate the Washington treaty and by the programs effected and contemplated by some European powers. It is the hope of the Government to secure an arrangement that will avoid competition in naval armaments whilst leaving us free to maintain the fleet at the strength necessary for our absolute requirements...
...views, the oft-repeated charge of Fascism in education becomes pointless. Any attempt at censorship in the name of Democracy, moreover, is absurd and dangerous. Among liberal democratic ideals the freedom of the individual--which involves freedom of expression and of publication--is fundamental. Minorities, if we are to avoid crystallization and decay, must be allowed to criticize existing conditions and in turn to submit their proposals to criticism, so that the evil or the unworkable may be rejected and the valuable utilized. The defensive panic of reactionaries, rather than any communistic agitation, is the greatest existing menace to democracy...