Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Reservations. Two principal reservations were suggested: 1) that the U. S. "disclaim all responsibility" for the exercise by the Court of its right to give advisory opinions. (This reservation was included to avoid the moral effect of an advisory decision by the Court on such a question, for example, as whether we ought to exclude Japanese immigrants from the U. S.); 2) that in adhering to the Court the U. S. assumes no obligation inconsistent with its rights under the Monroe Doctrine...
...Everybody asks me if I was held up by any bandits. I was not. My little expedition was looking for art, not for romance, and hence whenever we suspected passers-by of bandit proclivities we were very careful to avoid them...
...interesting boys in Harvard. I do not mean by that, Proselyting, but merely telling to them the merits of the college, and what they will gain by coming here. We do not want athletic parasites, but we want more men rooting for Harvard. We have bent over backwards to avoid proselyting, but we can at least stir up interest...
Thirty pirates were arrested by Chinese authorities and charged with attacking British ships in South China waters. To avoid legal proceedings, useless fuss and bother, two were shot in public, the remainder were enrolled in Sun Yat-Sen's army to be shot by the enemy...
...periods of ill health, but he held varied important positions in administration and research at Massachusetts Tech., the Carnegie Institution, the Bureau of Ordnances and Nela Park. The General Electric Company offered him absolute freedom and unsurpassed facilities for pure research; he returned there for his last years to avoid the strain of administrative work. Research was his home. He was one of the world's leading authorities on radioactivity, spectrum analysis, heat radiation of stars and planets, and pressure of light...