Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...legislation makes it a Federal offense to: 1) send ransom notes or kidnap threats across state lines; 2) kill or assault Federal officers on duty; 3) flee across state lines to avoid prosecution for a felony or testifying in a criminal case. The new laws likewise authorize the death penalty for kidnappers who fail to return their victims unharmed...
...proof or fact certainly has the support that a new idea never has; for it is not a new idea. In his later years Goethe lamented the coming doom of civilization in the nineteenth century and was glad that he was born early enough to be able to avoid witnessing this doom. And in the same way, every decade, before and after Goethe--and before Mr. John Haynes Holmes--has had its prophets of decay. But none of the prophecies appear to have worked out. Civilization has had its ups and downs but it has never become an unrevivable corpse...
...benefit of any schools whose representatives were unable to attend, the staff of advisers should be purged, and, if possible another day should be found in the fall for the adviser and advisee to consult and to debate the various possibilities. Only by such action can the University avoid censure for the present number of disasters, which come to pass only through ignorance of pitfalls...
...this present imperfect world nations have yet found no agreement upon practical methods of disarming. So long as they refuse to, the easiest way for them to stay armed is to permit a full exploitation of private profit system in the manufacture of armaments. By this device nations avoid the expense and annoyance of maintaining plants and inventories of armaments throughout a period of twenty years when perhaps they may never be needed at all; the private armorer meanwhile is able to keep his plants oiled and humming by sales not only to his own government but to foreign markers...
...role of a bemused cinema director in Once In a Lifetime. The part of Officer Meshbesher in Face the Music followed. As amusing off stage as on, Hugh O'Connell has a little dog whom he named "Kiki" before he investigated his sex and which, to avoid further confusion, he still refers to as she. He has likewise formed a close attachment for Mazie (also male), soothes the huge animal when they are about to appear on the stage, pats it and talks to it. Hugh O'Connell is 36, unmarried; if he has a hobby...