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Word: avoiders (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...served two terms in the Ohio Senate, where, as Democratic floor leader, he gained a reputation as a labor liberal. Up to the time John L. Lewis helped boost him into the A. F. of L. presidency, the most conspicuous ability he had demonstrated was the ability to avoid making enemies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Old Men Go West | 10/4/1937 | See Source »

...bulging belly of China's coast on his staff maps last week, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek picked up a ruler and drew a straight line down the 122nd meridian, which almost touches Shanghai. To the world's shipping a warning was sent that if it wished to avoid possible air bombardment all foreign ships must stay east of that line from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily. A fleet of Chinese bombers was preparing to make a desperate effort to break Japan's blockade of her coast. Still another fleet of twelve Chinese bombers formed themselves into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN CHINA: East of 122 | 9/27/1937 | See Source »

...Avoid agreements with expiration dates, which precipitate crises...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: School for Employers | 9/27/1937 | See Source »

...mind has no such effects, said he last week. More than that he could not explain. Reasons: English experimenters'" working with the substance have proved its efficacy on apes, whose reproductive mechanism functions exactly like women's. They are now testing it on humans, want to avoid public discussion until its usefulness is assured...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Women & Toads | 9/13/1937 | See Source »

...member of the Rowntree family and two guides, and complied with the guides' request to pass a liquor bottle from one to the other. At this Climber Rowntree stuck his Alpine stock into the snow, intoned a quotation from the Friends Book of Discipline: "Are Friends careful to avoid the use of liquors and the passing of them to others...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Friends in Philadelphia | 9/13/1937 | See Source »

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