Word: avoidable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...charter. If it is shaped to the wishes of its House sponsor, South Dakota's Karl Mundt, the international organization will 1) help re-establish education in devastated countries, 2) advise on the re-education of the enemy, 3) promote exchange of students, teachers, materials, methods, 4) avoid propaganda and direct control of schools...
Public opinion at this point seems, as always, to favor the underdog, and leading figures all over the Chahles Rivab Coastline were issuing statement hoping that the News could avoid a slaughter running perhaps as high...
...Avoid the Noonday Sun. All this, thinks Dr. Cowles, may be a warning to man. He cites the fact that high fever sometimes causes temporary human sterility. A 1943 survey in Galveston, Tex. showed that the rate of conception of babies is higher in cool seasons than in warm. Other investigators have reported that the fertility of white men is greatly reduced in the tropics, and even natives conceive fewer children in the hot months. Dr. Cowles believes it entirely possible that a sustained cycle of hot climate on the earth might radically change or even wipe out the human...
Finally, it is not really a plan for collective security. The Dumbarton Oaks proposals are a carefully, though not very bravely, calculated attempt to avoid, or at least postpone, the next war. They are an effort to perpetuate the power balance that will exist as a result of this war. The maintenance of the Big Three coalition is their basic assumption...
...flop was Detroit's pugnacious young Foremen's Association of America, an independent union. To enforce its bargaining demands, it had called a series of strikes in Detroit's war plants (TIME, May 15-22), hog-tied war production. By giving in, NLRB hopefully expects to avoid further "industrial strife." But the dissenting board member, Gerard D. Reilly, snapped that the ruling smacks of a "peace-at-any-price" policy...