Word: avoidance
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Washington thereafter brimmed with rumor. Bets were even that the chairmanship would be vacant by Aug. 1. Many believed it would still require a public demand from President Hoover to get Mr. Huston out. Speculators selected Senator Simeon Davison Fess of Ohio as his probable successor. To avoid a public explosion on the eve of an important campaign. Republican leaders strove to get the whole unpleasant to-do out of the headlines...
...advised a seminary graduating class to marry and thus avoid domestic discord: "Take my case for instance. My wife handles the minor problems and I the major ones. No trouble ever breaks out; not a major problem ever arises...
During these crucial moments last week, Vice-President Siegfried Vonkardorff rose before the Reichstag and sternly requested all members to cease sitting without their coats to avoid lowering the dignity of that body. Solemnly did the members debate whether a temperature of 88° justified their making themselves comfortable, decided in the negative...
...betting commissioner then books bets, the limit being 100 ticals ($44). Bettors who wish to avoid the 10% house commission make side wagers, sometimes involving wives, houses, livestock...
Last week the National Geographic Society reported that its South American survey plane was cruising from Miami to Havana when: "Pilot Hawkins, to avoid an angry black cloud, veered to port. Then, to our amazement, there quickly dropped from the north end of the storm cloud a thin writhing black column of a waterspout. In a few seconds, as we watched, it grew into a black, whirling corkscrew at least 600 feet high and probably 50 feet or more in diameter. ... As it grew in size ... it took the shape and appearance of a great snake, spray and mist rising...