Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hasty Hearts. In Springfield, Mo., after a 30-year courtship, Roy Saltsgraver at last got a yes, married Anna Wickersham across the state line in Arkansas to avoid Missouri's three-day-wait...
...pointing out that the seven dollar contribution to the Fund is, with rare exceptions such as the current emergency food relief drive, the only charity contribution asked of Harvard men throughout the year. Under the present set up of making pledges during registration "it is all too easy to avoid the collection at Memorial Hall," he stated...
...Literature: one wouldn't have to study for them if he were lucky enough to know the elementary material involved. This test, no more than the admirable General Education courses, would not settle forever our search for "a common core of knowledge"; but it would at least help students avoid the temptation of meekly submitting their destinies to whoever happens at a given moment to be making our policy...
With the Senate apparently ready to hold the budget cutting to $4,5000,000,000 to avoid slashes for the Army and Navy Knutson said that if the lower cut prevails "the tax reduction this year certainly will be something less than 20 percent...
...only chance of strengthening a world front against totalitarianism is by building a democratic analogue to Stalin's multi-national Bolshevism . . . motivated by a desire to avoid war and prevent the one world of planned enslavement which is the Russian program. ... If the Western statesmen don't understand that the world cannot remain half slave and half free, the Russians do, and they are engaged in the most extensive propaganda effort since the Comintern was founded to make the one world their world. The weakness and injustices of our democracy provide them with excellent material for propaganda...