Word: avoidance
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...proof that they are no more dishonest than the public, thieves often observe that of the pocketbooks thrown away on the street to avoid arrest, few are ever turned over to the police...
...sitting. The impulse to play a little joke on them all was too much for me. As the opera went on, I proceeded to sing passionately to each in turn.... I preferred roles that allowed me to make a feature of my curves, since, apparently, I couldn't avoid having them. . . . King Edward induced me to try to play golf. . . . But after a few trials I found my arm too short and my bust too big for me to develop the proper swing, I decided God hadn't built me the right shape for action on a golf...
Striving to avoid monotonous repetition in their daily compositions, the dieticians have coined this phrase to take the place of the more mundane "whole wheat bread," thus following the lead of the Maintenance Department, which earlier in the year labelled the new Sever exit an "egress...
...more deplorable the recent disaffection of a number of prominent Republicans in Ward 5. Basing their action on a personal quarrel of ten years' standing they have put personal sentiment before the good of the city in a manner which the average voter will do well to avoid. There is absolutely no evidence that Nichols is anything but what his record declares him to be, an honest Republican whose ability and experience render him preeminently worthy of the office of mayor...
Significant was the fact that the week's outstanding banking blast against Washington came from Rochester instead of from Boston. Apparently to avoid implicating the A. B. A., Banker Winthrop W. Aid-rich, chairman of New York's Chase National Bank, chose a luncheon meeting of the Rochester Chamber of Commerce as a rostrum for the most outspoken if not the most original attack upon the New Deal since the current market crash began. In a concise analysis of the situation which warmed the hearts of Wall Street, Banker Aldrich repeated and amplified the assertions made by President...