Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...second lecture, "The Role of Private enterprise," Copland contended that the pre-war economy failed to operate in the best interests of the community at large, that it could not avoid depressions, and that it will not employ all available factors in the long...
...national humiliation-thousands of Canadian soldiers were deserting to avoid combat...
...than all his 50 assistants put together. He founded a Soviet commission on "the history of knowledge," was rated an expert in geology, chemistry, biology, physics and astronomy. A man of strong likes and dislikes, when traveling to France in 1936 he insisted on going by sea to avoid crossing Germany. Said he: "There is not one person left in that country whom I would care to meet...
...pledged that "the College will certainly cooperate whole heatedly with any plan which may be worked out, and will, as in the past, do its part in the total war effort." He emphasized that the situation is extremely indefinite at the present time, and expressed the desire that students avoid anxiety until the issue becomes more clearly defined...
...Washington, Fleet Admiral William D. Leahy joined Admiral King in adding another half-inch stripe to the one two-inch and three half-inch stripes on his sleeve, after moving the old ones closer together to avoid crowding at the elbow. (Generals of the Army George C. Marshall and Henry H. Arnold ordered new insignia, but had nothing yet to show their new status...