Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...some observers the Metropolitan Subway system in Paris is the most efficient subway service in the world. Entering, one buys a ticket, the price varying according to the class. The ticket is punched at the entrance to the platform, the agent regulating the number of people passing him to avoid overcrowding on the platform. Many of the stairways are divided; people entering go down to the right, those leaving go up to the right. The wide subway doors are all on the side, usually three of them, so that the cars can be emptied and filled rapidly. Doors must...
...John Barclay), disguises himself as a wandering minstrel to woo Yum-Yum (Lois Bennett), ward and fiancee of the Lord High Executioner Ko-Ko (Fred Wright). By crossing the palm of the stately grafter, Pooh-Bah (William Gordon), whose ancestry is so proud that he was "born sneering," they avoid one tangle of legal red tape only to discover themselves enmeshed in another. Not till the exalted Mikado himself descends upon the scene does the complication resolve itself into matrimony...
...unnewsworthy space-fillers alone. Your judgment may err, and you may profit from occasional advice, but we trust your good sense of balance to be better than any of us could achieve. Your editorial discrimination, as well as your condensation, is worthy of our praise and loyalty. Avoid "departments...
...must visualize war as coming suddenly without our desire or expectation and in spite of every course of action to avoid it. Our maximum effort will be demanded speedily. If this requires the impossible, it must be remembered that war is a game of impossibilities...
Chief among the agenda is disarmament. Sir Austen Chamberlain, British Foreign Secretary, was credited with a desire to postpone the next meeting of the League Preparatory Disarmament Commission, scheduled to be held in the fall, allegedly to try to avoid a discussion of the recent tripartite Naval Conference between the U. S. Britain, Japan (TIME, June 27, et. seq.). A well-defined movement to blame Britain for the failure seemed, however, to be in the making...