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Word: avoider (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although they deplored the antagonism of the American Medical Association toward compulsory health insurance, public health leaders made it clear that extension of State medicine should proceed gradually to avoid confusion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Health Insurance | 11/7/1938 | See Source »

...even if such plays have a message they proclaim it in broad enough terms to avoid the narrowly controversial or flagrantly partisan. And this is significant, not least as box office; for, if, in the commercial theatre, the historical play is a gamble, the "propaganda play" is an out-and-out luxury...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Past & Present | 11/7/1938 | See Source »

...Jefferson City, Mo. Attorney General Roy McKittrick ruled that the famed MPAYBE "Movie Quiz" was a lottery, advised Missouri theatre owners who wished to avoid the chance of going to prison for from two to five years to avoid participating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Items | 10/31/1938 | See Source »

...insincere in what I have written all my life? Do you think that my contempt for law, society and conformity are not genuine? Well, I can tell you I am no faker. I shall always try to appear to conform, but I shall not do so to,-well, to avoid the disapproval of others...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Reformer's Letters | 10/31/1938 | See Source »

Leahy said that he wished to avoid prosecution of offenders lost the Police Department be accused of persecuting Harvard students in view of recent unpleasantness...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Chief Leahy Warns Against Illegal Parking by Students | 10/28/1938 | See Source »

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