Word: avoiders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Well aware are the managements of TIME and LIFE of their common readers' Friday indecision, equally undesirable to each magazine. Plans are being studied to avoid a mutual distribution...
...long-suffering public hopes that Admiral Byrd WILL DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT! He need never, on any occasion, be mistaken for a bellhop, a street car conductor or train caller [TIME, Jan. 25]. He can avoid such embarrassing moments by merely following the precedent set for him by those men whose stripes or stars or whatnots are the result of long and arduous service: No officer on the retired list wears a uniform, any time, any where. His uniform automatically retires with his active status. No officer on the active list wears a uniform while traveling. In fact, he never...
...Modern complexities call also for a constant infusion of new blood in the courts, just as it is needed in executive functions of the Government and in private business. A lowered mental or physical vigor leads men to avoid an examination of complicated and changed conditions. Little by little, new facts become blurred through old glasses fitted, as it were, for the needs of another generation; older men, assuming that the scene is the same as it was in the past, cease to explore or inquire into the present or the future...
...what litigation costs U. S. citizens each year. Civil court machinery in the city of New York alone costs Federal, State and city governments more than $17,000,000 per year. Only since the War has there been serious attention paid to that field of law which aims to avoid litigation, namely, arbitration. Prime U. S. force seeking to eliminate needless litigation is the American Arbitration Association, which this month is starting its twelfth year of activity...
Said Dr. Wilbur: "When every American family sees that the children in each generation are taught the truth about syphilis and gonorrhea, how to avoid them and what to do if infected, we shall no longer see our young manhood and womanhood their chief victims.'' Said Dr. Parran: "There must be secured through the medical and other professional groups additional experienced personnel to provide for the necessary diagnosis, treatment and follow-up of all infected persons...