Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cleveland-Detroit route, where it is doing extremely well. Mr. Redden blames New Yorkers and praises the superior courage and enterprise of business men in the automobile centers. But perhaps it is more a question of geography. The London-Paris air services are busy because they enable passengers to avoid a nasty Channel crossing. Detroit to Cleveland by air is only 100 miles, while the rail journey is long and roundabout and a, lake steamer takes all day. Moreover, these two cities are very closely linked in business and industry, while New York to Atlantic City is a most pleasant...
...Elizabethan era. Its frequent quotations should inspire in its readers a desire to turn from it to the masterpieces with which it deals. The Bible is well treated, and from a modern viewpoint. Each chapter is followed by an intelligent bibliography. The individual estimates of authors in general avoid the irrelevant. The illustrations are for the most part well chosen. The whole slips down the throat as easily as junket. And if at times the book unavoidably reminds one of a somewhat hurried torchlight procession of famous literary figures - that is doubtless unavoidable. Considering what was attempted it is really...
...party had rested for two days. He had found the wild animals tame, had fed bears sweet rolls out of his hand, had witnessed "one of the finest impulses that animates the heart of man" when the driver of the Presidential automobile had brought it to a stop to avoid running over two baby grouse, "no bigger than hickory nuts." The President had likewise committed himself to the plan of local boosters to add 400,000 acres to the Park by annexing the Jackson Hole country and part of the Teton Range...
...March 22, 1919, following a note from Lieutenant Colonel Vyx, representing the Entente, the power of Government was seized by the proletariat, and Karolyi resigned the Presidency of the Republic. "I preferred this sacrifice to assuming the cheap martyrdom of letting them arrest me, because I wanted to avoid bloodshed and mass murder in the streets of Budapest, to spare the country from the worst horrors of civil war"* Nevertheless much blood was spilled. It is significant that the staunchest defense of Karolyi comes from one of his Bolshevik brethern, Professor Jaszi-Jakabo-vics in a most unreliable book...
...noticed that the French Premier was careful to avoid mentioning why the British questionnaire still remained unanswered, although he professes that the Government is ready to negotiate with Britain. The reasons...