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Word: avoiders (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Within sight of the harbor the hawser suddenly snaps again, this time cut deliberately by the Greek captain to avoid paying salvage costs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hero's Trade | 1/11/1937 | See Source »

...religious or civil ceremonies. Lawyer Delson recommends his find for deaf-mutes because such contracts require no words, take but 35 sec. to sign. They should also appeal to Quakers, Mennonites and other sectarians who dislike to swear oaths. Nevertheless Bride McGraw and Groom Mallina did by no means avoid Godliness. Their contract stipulated that it was as good as a religious ceremony, and day after they signed it they repaired, for a short philosophic talk, to the home of famed Columbia Professor John Dewey, who believes in a vague humanistic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Contract Marriage | 12/28/1936 | See Source »

...calls Fort Belvedere. At Cannes the first statement made for her is handed to reporters at the Hotel Majestic by Peregrine Francis Adelbert Cust, 6th Baron Brownlow, close friend of Edward VIII: "The following is an official statement. . . . Mrs. Simpson, throughout the last few weeks, invariably has wished to avoid any action which would hurt or damage His Majesty or the Throne. . . . She is willing, if such action would solve the problem, to withdraw forthwith from the situation." In the London circle of Mrs. Lucy Baldwin this statement is called "impudent and melodramatic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Edvardus Rex | 12/14/1936 | See Source »

...zealously organizing a Women's Field Army against Cancer, squads of Pennsylvania women trooped to Philadelphia last week to be told that cancer is curable if detected early, to be urged to spread this word to other women. While these women were busy being told how to avoid death from cancer, Dr. Grace Medes, 49, of Philadelphia's Lankenau Hospital Research Institute wondered whether the strange sulfur sprees upon which she periodically goes will ever give her a cancer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Lankenau Experimenter | 12/14/1936 | See Source »

...existing publications are not holding up the mirror to all phases of Harvard life. It suggests that experimentation with controversial subjects might blast away time-honored indifference. The "Guardian", on the other hand, appears to face fewer, but by no means minor difficulties. If either or both can avoid a misdated, shot-gun marriage with older publications, if either or both can overcome the manifold difficulties, and particularly the inertia of students, they deserve a long and happy life...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LABOR PAINS | 12/14/1936 | See Source »

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