Word: avoided
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Amid the vast confusion of trash of every form, from cosmetics to detective story magazines, that is flooding Europe and America, the overthrow of our civilization seems imminent. We can avoid it only by following the teachings of the greatest men that have ever lived, among them, Plato. Socrates, Buddha, Confucius, the great Hindu teachers, and last and best exponent of all ideas. Jesus Christ...
...during the past week at the Council meeting at Geneva would indicate that too great hopes are not justified. Stresemann, the German foreign minister, was obliged by pressure at home to put the question on the agenda, but it was clear from the beginning that he was anxious to avoid raising the question in a larger way, in order not to compromise the reparations negotiations which are in progress. The Poles, knowing that the Germans would not be willing to have the question become acute, have been pressing for action, in the hope that the whole problem could be definitively...
Somersault. Col. Lindbergh circled above the field several times, making preparations. Exactly what went on in the cabin is not known. But the windows were put down to avoid flying glass, and Col. Lindbergh undoubtedly packed cushions around Miss Morrow. According to one plausible report, he said to her: "When we land, we'll overturn. Don't be afraid...
...Commerce and the Daniel Guggenheim Fund for the Promotion of Aeronautics, newspapers now give no more emphasis to air accidents than to motor or train accidents. And seldom do they mention the name of the plane and motor in the crash. The idea of this censorship is to avoid scaring prospective airplane owners and riders, to protect the public's air-consciousness from unnecessary jars...
...avoid misquotation, President Coolidge cables his foreign affairs speeches in advance to American embassies, for U. S. diplomats to peruse and distribute to the foreign press. To Paris thus went the Coolidge farewell speech, in which was some careful research on foreign alliances. "He [Washington] warned us to beware of permanent and political alliances," said President Coolidge. "The phrase 'entangling alliances' is not from him but from Jefferson." Taking his cue almost verbatim, Ambassador Herrick said: "Washington did not use the phrase 'entangling alliances' but warned against permanent alliances." This was no mere echo, for Mr. Herrick, in Paris, said...