Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Think of it, brethren! . . . Rather a base and contemptible piece of diplomacy, methinks. My old college friend,* the Ambassador to the Court of St. James's fled to the highlands of Scotland to avoid meeting the distinguished tourist...
...Permanent Class Committee, five for the Album Committee, and seven for the Class Day Committee. If a voter does not check the required number of candidates for each office, the votes cast by him for that particular position will be completely discarded. This rule has been made necessary to avoid possible errors in counting the votes for the various candidates for each office. All ballots to be considered must be signed by the voters and should be marked in pencil...
...voter does not signify the required number of candidates for each office, the votes cast by him for that office will be completely discarded. This rule has been made necessary to avoid possible errors in counting the votes for the divers candidates for each office...
...current that sixty per cent of the babies born of tobacco smoking mothers die in two years. At least, no doubt, a man drinking aldehyde will replace the policeman in the "You Can't Win" subway signs; the renegade will do his drinking down alleys in order to avoid the pointing fingers of abused wives and George Washingtons; and the public will grow very, very weary...
...atmosphere of an approaching Presidential election, when every opportunity will be seized for manufacturing campaign material and when everyone except a few embarrassingly outspoken men will be trying to avoid the truly decisive issues, the Seventieth Congress is being called to order. Its debates, and legislation, which in spite of all this must deal with important problems, will be the products of what amounts to three-party politicts at work in a system designed for two parties...