Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...love of Spain, but fearful of their own communications in the Mediterranean, Britain and France were ready to act last week, though hoping always to avoid an open break with Italy. France, knowing Benito Mussolini's hatred of the very sound of Geneva, maneuvered to have the twelve power piracy conference held at Nyon, one of the few towns in Switzerland that has not yet profited from the crowded hotels of an international conference...
...reached Cleveland in third place, won $3,000 plus $2,500 offered to the first woman to finish. The $5,000 second prize went to Earl Ortman of Los Angeles, who nearly lost consciousness for lack of oxygen when he mounted to 22,000 ft. over Kansas to avoid a storm. Winner was wealthy Sportsman Frank William Fuller of San Francisco, who-with the possible exception of Mrs. Odlum-had less need of money prizes than any other flyer entered...
Last week bacteriologists and chemists of the Army Medical School in Washington busily prepared this new preventive. To avoid adulteration they worked in glass cages, sterilized each morning by live steam and ventilated all day by sterile, conditioned air. Before the men entered the cages, which contained no germs except those in test tubes, flasks and 5-gal. demijohns, they changed every stitch of clothing...
...diplomatic bureaus of his government about 180 miles southwest to golden Salamanca. Salamanca is only 100 miles from Madrid with excellent highway communications to Avila, advance base for the Madrid front, and has direct rail connections with Portugal, a useful back door for German advisers who wish to avoid passing through France. Into this city whose normal population is less than 25,000, over 50,000 people have been crowded. In its one modern hostelry, the flag bedecked Grand Hotel,* none but German and Italian staff officers and the most potent politicos may dream of finding a room. Humble...
...criminal law is that either side of an action can challenge, without offering a reason, a certain number of jurors. All 48 U. S. States accept this principle. But some U. S. judges are as objectionable as some U. S. jurors, and hitherto the only way a lawyer could avoid trying his cause before a judge he disliked or distrusted was to prove prejudice on the part of the judge or to switch his case to some other court on jurisdictional grounds...