Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...speed we were going (31 knots) had a job to get there, and before they did a torpedo striking force from the Formidable, which we had seen before we sighted the battleship, attacked the enemy and his attention was well and truly distracted. He ceased fire and turned to avoid the torpedoes, and we drew out of range...
Labor's history is not exactly a bed of roses. Most unions have had to win better wages and shorter hours by the mailed fist rather than the oily word. Yet occasionally a union organizes effectively enough, and the employer is intelligent enough, to avoid the exercise of collective strength. When that happens, union members ought to shake their apron-strings in glee. It's happening all right, but some of the workers are responding rather perversely...
...order to avoid misinterpreting of the parietal laws referring to Women guests, the Yardlings were reminded that any female, even one's mother, must be approved before she can enter the rooms between the permited hours of 1 to 7 o'clock. More careful supervision of the size of parties, both minimum and maximum, will also be undertaken from...
...German inflation for several years past, and Britain had to come to it. Britain's new taxes, said Sir Kingsley frankly, are not intended primarily to raise more revenue, but "to make a considerable cut" in the public's power to buy in order to "avoid the ever-present dangers of inflation...
There are other organizations which may face a similar situation in the future. They also should decide, what their policy will be in those circumstances so as to avoid a situation in which any member of an organization would be excluded from its activities because of race or creed. John W. Darr, Jr. '41, Chairman of the Harvard Council for Democracy in Education...