Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Crux of the coal problem is that the U.S. has never caught up with the coal lost in last April's 29-day strike.* All through late spring and summer the U.S. Government (from wolf-crying Harold Ickes to sanguine Ralph Budd) urged coal consumers to buy ahead, avoid the fall traffic peak. Yet, in the first seven months of this year, with industrial production up 15%, total coal loadings, which usually pace production (especially in boom periods), were up less than 8%; bituminous coal production through mid-September was up only 9%. Government officials shudder at the implications...
...government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck...
Attempt to Avoid Repitition
...this concentration of colleges on military training rather than college work which Harvard is attempting to avoid in this crisis. It is aided by the set-up of the army, which is far advanced over the situation which faced the country in the last...
...wring your hands. > Don't put pencils in your hair. > Don't wear clanking bracelets. > Don't talk baby talk. > Don't wear long fingernails. But tint your nails (to avoid being different) unless the superintendent or community objects...