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Word: avoiding (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Algiers, Algeria: Avoid the Kasbah Quarter at night and beware of native women...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Sailor's Friend | 7/26/1937 | See Source »

Marseille, France: Avoid "touts"' and so-called guides, who are mostly crooks. Patronize big stores where prices are plainly marked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Sailor's Friend | 7/26/1937 | See Source »

Ponta Delgada, St. Michael, Azores: Avoid contact with bumboat men who offer doubtful liquor and may be robbers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Sailor's Friend | 7/26/1937 | See Source »

...appraised the grim thunderheads with eager eyes, then took off in his big, sleek sailplane after an automobile tow. Up, up, up he circled on rising air currents, while hundreds of faces turned up at him from the ground. Pilots of motored planes swing far off their courses to avoid thunderheads but motorless Pilot du Pont had just the opposite idea in mind. Up 4,500 ft., directly over Harris Hill, he guided his ship directly into a thunderhead, rode along inside it for an hour during which he was lost to view. Coming out several miles away, he turned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Riding Thunder-heads | 7/19/1937 | See Source »

...scrupulous osteopaths avoid exploiting the fact that King George's Pediatrician George Frederic Still has the same family name as Osteopathy's late Founder Andrew Taylor Still...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Backs & Barrenness | 7/19/1937 | See Source »

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