Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Date. The fixation of Oct. 29 as the date for the general elections was made, according to The Times of London, to avoid clashing with the municipal elections, the date of which is fixed...
...Massachusetts Avenue. During the five minutes the ladder was across the walk, 22 men, most of them students, walked boldly under the ladder and tempted the gods of fate. In the same interval only one person took the trouble of walking around the foot of the ladder and avoid the consequent ill fortune...
...along the line. Both addresses and resolutions thus included an unusually wide range of topics: demagogs were attacked, the railroads defended; both the direct primary and the Child Labor Law were condemned; public ownership was assailed; a plea for foreign investments was made; the farmer was told to avoid Government paternalism and to organize cooperative marketing systems; the Federal Reserve Bank was praised; uneconomic taxation was scored; belief was expressed that some reduction of wages must occur; everyone was urged to vote; and to the U. S. Supreme Court was pledged the Association's support...
...matters of importance is almost certain to crystallize the liberal and conservative tempers of men into rival camps of champions and opponents of the innovation, a sharp division between "Modernist" and "Fundamentalist" has taken place. The leading voices in the Presbyterian general assembly, upholding the existing order, strove to avoid the threatened cleavage in the church, and did not openly denounce the new tendencies. It saw that a tactful request to Dr. Fosdick to accept the Presbyterian articles of faith, or resign his church, would convey a tacit denunciation of those tendencies he represented. That Dr. Fosdick has answered their...
...Major A. Stuart MacLaren and two other British soldiers who left Calshot, England, March 25, in one plane, put a new machine into service at Akyab, India, and wrecked the latter by hitting a heavy sea when trying to avoid a small island in alighting near Nikolski Bay off Kamtchatka...