Word: eschews
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...this advice to lead Christian lives of temperance, hard-work, and worship were not enough, the rules went on to enjoin all students to "eschew all profanation of the God's name," and further, that "they studiously redeeme the time" and "dillegently attend the lectures without any disturbance by word or gesture...
...wholly caused by, the profusion and unrepresentative character of their laws. For this reason they must be dealt with cautiously in most administrative matters, and especially in those which are sumptuary. But they are by now so thoroughly disgusted with the immediate effects of prohibition, and so willing to eschew the saloon if a satisfactory alternative presents itself, that the framing of wise liquor legislation is a matter or profound social importance. That legislation must set at the beginning a far frontier of government control upon which no one will dare to encroach; specifically, it should prohibit the sale...
...conference between President Roosevelt and M. Litvinoff one of the most persistent of the American demands will be that the soviet rigorously eschew all Communist proselytizing in this country; there seems to be but little doubt that the Russians will accede to this. All over the world Red activity directed from Moscow has almost ceased, and the Soviet seems to have abandoned the idea of the world revolution for the time being, at least...
...Eschew those," concluded the editorial, "who underestimate the rabbit...
Though eclipsed by many another French writer, in the opinion of many a big and little wig, Andre Maurois (real name: Emile Herzog) stands first in the eyes of a majority of his countrymen, is now generally regarded as France's foremost living writer. Readers who eschew the unsteady brilliance of Jean Cocteau, the cold amorality of Andre Gide, turn with relief to the sympathetic charm, the Judaic kindliness, of Author Maurois. His ironic fire, at its fiercest only kindled laughter, never burnt anyone. An unembarrassing writer, his manners are beautiful-although, like most good manners, a little banal...