Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...extend from the council-table, through the ratifying bodies, to a grand international committee of conference designed to smooth over the objections which the various parliaments had enacted. This procedure would be open diplomacy openly arrived at but it is indirect, slow and uncertain. The Senate will help to avoid it by giving to the present treaties its unconditioned approval...
...preparing the book much difficulty has been experienced in obtaining permission to include some of the Harvard songs which have become the property of publishing houses. To avoid this in the future, as far as possible, those graduates who still own songs have been approached: and a number of them have agreed to give their copyrights to the Glee Club so that they may remain permanently in the hands of the University...
...play in the Living Room while Myer Davis from Philadelphia will bring a five-piece orchestra to supply the music in the Dining Room. The two orchestras will play different programs though they will arrange to play the same kind of dances at the same time in order to avoid any confusion. The music will begin at 9.30 and will close promptly at 4 with a 45-minute intermission for supper at 12.30. Ten numbers will be played before this and all of them will be fox trots with the exception of one waltz, while the same arrangement will...
...avoid confusion and to keep the dances up to schedule a bell will be rung at the beginning of each dance and during the dance no cut-ins will be allowed. During the encores which follow each dance, cutting-in will be permitted. The signal for the completion of an encore will be two bells...
...lobbies become that the legislators are beginning to doubt whether they have anything whatever to say about running the country. Accordingly the members of the Virginia house of Delegates have decided to strike a blow in their own defense, and--since it is impossible to resist the lobbyists--to avoid them. A bill is now before one of the committees to furnish each and every Delegate with a false beard and whiskers to the end that he may better avoid the sharp scrutiny of the lobbyists, and "to facilitate ingress and egress from the house without recognition...