Word: avoided
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Arriving in Ankara from conferences with Fuhrer Adolf Hitler and Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop, the German Ambassador to Turkey, famed Lieut. Colonel Franz von Papen, declared: "It is quite clear what Germany is fighting for. It is to avoid a repetition of the tragedy of Versailles and to build a better Europe. It is to do away once and for all with the necessity of European nations fighting each other twice in a century to establish 'European equilibrium'.... England proposes a European Commonwealth for the future. She had had ample time since the last war to establish...
Teamwork. Probably this lack of passionate convictions has helped make Kaufman the ideal collaborator. His adaptable, accommodating mind is geared to avoid collisions. It is also geared to let the other fellow's personality, rather than Kaufman's, permeate the play. What colors Beggar on Horseback, for example, is the pleasantly housebroken imaginativeness of Marc Connelly; what colors The Royal Family is the romantic bustle of Edna Ferber. The plays Kaufman has written with Moss Hart are better fused because, as comic playwrights, the two men are cut to much the same pattern...
Harassed President French replied: ". . . The proposed plan would avoid the waste, expense and losses which would be involved in a judicial proceeding which would probably be necessary. . . ." Other not-yet-insolvent railroads wondered whether Mr. Jones would urge similar plans on them...
...Society declared that the Corporation's decision to refer the matter to a committee is "a flimsy device to avoid the well-deserved wrath of the students who have demanded that the University grant the John Reed Society a hall in which to present Earl Browder...
...interview, the authority on international law described the recent move by American shipping firms as "hypocrisy," and said, "It constitutes a direct challenge to the Germans to get these ships, and is playing with just the kind of dangerous incident we have been trying to avoid...