Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...small annual repayment of principal in addition to interest) of 2% of their holdings, in no case to exceed a total of $150 per annum, the annual sum of $10,000,000 to be earmarked for this purpose. All others holders?this part of the law being designed to avoid rewarding speculators who, since 1920, were active in buying the bonds at a fraction of their original value?are not to receive any interest and must wait the 'pleasure of the Government for the 5% redemption...
...academic difficulties and the man out for distinction will both, if intelligent, spend all possible time on the next course report or examination, and avoid their tutors...
...needs; and St. Paul, as the latest comer, has fared worst in competition. President Harry E. Byram naturally is preserving as cheerful a countenance concerning the approaching bond maturity date as he can; and even yet the bonds may be extended or exchanged in some way so as to avoid a receivership. But, since the immediate crisis is financial, the real future of the St. Paul is probably in the hands of two bankers, Jerome J. Hanauer of Kuhn, Loeb & Co., and President Charles E. Mitchell of the National City Bank of New York. Neither very naturally will talk...
Harvard has long contented itself with a legendary mascot to avoid the embarrassment of a physical one. The symbolized figure of John Harvard, which the newspapers have invented to fill this vacancy, exists only on the sport page. He is no more than a paper-and-ink-cartoon...
That move was not without political astuteness. It aligned against him a good many political leaders of both parties, but it was the only way in which he could avoid at once being wrapped in the shroud of Vice Presidential insignificance. Besides, the public has of late manifested no little disgust for the methods of Congress, the Senate in particular. Under present circumstances, it is not unlikely that the Senate will go on during the next four years in the same manner in which it has gone on for the last four years, "dawdling," in the manner which has left...