Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...avoid an enticing side issue, let me state that I never have been, and am not now, an admirer of the Eighteenth Amendment. Prohibition is a live topic of the day and is fair subject for ridicule, as are all such matters. Some may feel that, as an inspiration of wit it is somewhat worn, but, after all, an Ivy Orator has a hard time, so we will not question his seeking humor in prohibition...
...they desire to protect themselves their proper course is to join the Association at once. Investigations which are being made seem to show that the affairs of the Association have been very poorly managed and it is certain that a new steward will be selected who will avoid the blunders of his predecessor. If a sufficient numbers of those who have been driven from the Hall by the mistakes of the past will give the Association one more trial the price of board will undoubtedly be kept at a reasonable figures the fare will be improved and the commons will...
...Cruiser A is capable of developing high speed which will enable it to avoid conflict with a superior force. It is vastly superior to the ordinary 10,000-ton cruisers and would be a dangerous adversary of a full-sized battleship. Its armament surpasses that of our old ships of the line...
...Lester Madison, acting director of Cleveland's Museum of Natural History, is getting data on the birds which migrate across the district and on the relation of atmospheric conditions to the height to which birds fly. But such usefulness cannot last very long, because birds somehow learn to avoid man-built obstacles...
Spreckels. All Californians know the history of the Sugar Family Spreckels. Father Claus, immigrant grocery boy, had left Germany in 1848 to avoid the revolutionary fighting. By 1856, Father Claus had imported a German bride and settled in San Francisco. From this time on, he lived in a state of perpetual warfare...