Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Ambassador Tsuneo Matsudaira and other prominent Japanese who went to meet the Prince shut their eyes to avoid witnessing the undignified spectacle of a descendant of the Sun Goddess slithering down a steep, icy gangplank. Assistant Secretary of State J. Butler Wright kept his eyes open, greeted Prince Chichibu, and saw that the revenue cutter on which he was taken off the Majestic borrowed a Japanese flag from the liner and ran it up while a salute of 21 guns boomed from the shore...
...sacred flesh of cow or bull. Moslems are beef-eaters,* and abhor idolatry. Last week Swami Shradanand, noted Hindu Brahman, sat down to discuss religious matters with one Abdul Rashid, a Mohammedan, at Delhi, capital of British India. Soon they disagreed. The courtly Swami ("Lord") Shradanand sought to avoid dispute by requesting the Mohammedan to call again when they might discourse with cooler heads. Abdul Rashid, vitally vexed, drew a revolver and shot the Swami dead, was captured, jailed...
Thus, with ten theoretical cruisers, President Coolidge sought to ease the hunger of the Navy and avoid an argument with Congress. There was dissent from this plan, even in Republican ranks. Representative Britten of Illinois, ranking Republican of the Naval Affairs Committee, who was not present at the making of the Coolidge-Butler compromise, said: "If the bill does not appropriate for those three cruisers already authorized, the authorization for the ten additional ones would appear to the world as a big bluff...
...memory of Norton Perkins '98. Apparently the author of "The Ancient Mariner" shared in some degree the modern schoolboy's dislike for the Latin language, for we find inscribed on the fly leaf: "Heaven forbid! This work should not exist in its present form and language! Yet I cannot avoid the wish that it had been, during the reign of James the first, moulded into an heroic poem in English Octava Rima...
Other recommendation: place the merchant marine under a single responsible head and urge the people to ship in U. S. bottoms; develop the Philippines, economically and do not give them independence until they are better fitted; discharge War debt obligations rapidly; avoid competitive armaments; create a board to deal with radio problems; enact immediately supplementary legislation to enforce Prohibition...