Word: eschewed
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...avails nothing, if it is not put to some constructive use in the future. All this Mr. Shorey neglected while betraying his quite natural affection for the good old days. Granting the speaker that modern culture is a barren wasteland, Phi Beta Kappa men should not be advised to eschew it for the more pleasant task of literary research. They should be urged only to insert their keys in the doors that will open more pleasant avenues of thought and culture...
Reader Kelly takes his point well. TIME should eschew superlatives. For conscientiousness there is not a pin to choose between Commissioners Eastman and Porter...
...Eminence intimated that a good Catholic can belong to the British Labor Party and yet eschew its Socialist principles. He went further. He boldly intimated that Socialist principles are eschewed by many Laborites. With ineffable mildness Cardinal Bourne said of the Labor Party...
...knows that a good football team goes merely with the cash to hire the right coach and the alumni to send the right men. There is, we agree, no glory attached to that. When the Michigan team plays eleven boys who just happen to attend Harvard we shall eschew the Michigan locomotive and the skyrocket. Bue we shall keep our eyes open to see whether Barry Wood, with fourth down and goal to go, glances at his wrist watch and rushes off the field explaining: "Excuse me, please, I have a heavy bit of reading to do for economics...
German winegrowers, too, complained last week of low prices, overproduction. Into Berlin's famed Potsdamer Platz marched one Josef Putz, Moselle Valley vintner, pushing a large cask of Moselle in front of him. On each of the cask's heads were inscribed pleas to drink more Moselle, eschew beer and foreign wines. As a mark of his sincerity Cask-Pusher Putz had already pushed his cask from Coblenz to Cologne to Hamburg to Berlin (approximately...