Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...army, has consistently abused all public powers in the community, and violated the constitutional laws of the empire." The Shah explained his own long residence in Europe, which has been attributed to a taste for European "high life," by saying: "I have thought it necessary, in order to avoid all international agitation, which would have caused my country to suffer, to leave my country and by this sacrifice show how fully I disapprove of the illegal arbitrary acts of Reza Khan...
...Dean Whitney had for two long weeks, day and night, been submitted to the none too tender mercies of those pertinacious individuals who swarm around the Freshman dormitories with pressing contracts from 'The Varmint' and "The Varlet,' he would either give the innocent victims some advice on how to avoid them, or, realizing the futility of doing this, he should adopt some plan whereby our suffering, if not eliminated, would be shortened...
...spite of our particular care to avoid misunderstanding, we have received occasional communications protesting against our desire to "abolish chapel", or accusing us of being destructive critics without a constructive element. Of course it is compulsion and not chapel that we, and now virtually all of Yale College and the Freshman Year, are attacking, and the very attack is a constructive one. It is our belief, stated infinite numbers of times, that what runs our religious services is the element of compulsion. Unless you call an operation for appendicitis a destructive operation you cannot call this newly expressed and long...
...reason I am asking you to change the title of my talk is that I try to avoid having the public get the impression that the Coast Guard is concerned with rum-running operations alone...
...diocese of West Virginia it has been forbidden by law and the Bishop threatened with arrest if it continued.' The bishops declined to drop the practice, although several bishops have permitted their clergymen to dip the bread in the chalice of wine and give it to communicants to avoid the cup's passing from...