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Word: avoiding (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1930
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Usage:

...good-sized piece that enabled him to be generous in sharing it with his fellows. Now, largely due to the tax, the plug commonly used does not contain more than a half a dozen good-sized chews. The buyer . . . seeks privacy when he takes a chew in order to avoid sharing it with others...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUSBANDRY: Tobacco Tax | 1/6/1930 | See Source »

...bitter. On Armistice Day, while London is going mad outside the windows, he goes up to young Bolt's office, sits down alone, smokes a pipe, thinks of Charley Bolt who has been killed. The book ends with Tomlinson and Maynard revisiting the weedgrown battlefields of France, trying to avoid souvenir-collecting tourists, trying to see some hope for the future...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Aristocracy | 1/6/1930 | See Source »

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