Word: shun
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...work so well, is not an element proposed for the Littauer School. The recommending commission shows considerable uncertainty over the possibilities of placing the new school's graduates; that possibility might be increased, in this age of practicality, by some genuinely practical instruction. Scholarly training, no matter how it shun theory, can hardly substitute for that. The scheme of bringing part of Washington here, instead of sending the students to Washington, may indeed make the graduates acceptable to their government. At any rate, the two rival schemes will continue side by side for some time to come, and the success...
...PRELATES SHUN PARTY ATTENDED BY MRS. SIMPSON...
...Church At tendance Division would gather statistics on the state of the church by "sampling" questionnaires; a Family Responsibility Division would keep tabs on the number of children born to church members; a Personal Habits Division would "record the percentage of church members who are strictly temperate and who shun harmful habits"; an unnamed Division might "record the homes where the Christian flag is flying." Finally, "without taking any part in politics, our Congregational-Christian Churches should strive to get out a 100% vote of our church members...
Sonja Henie (pronounced to rhyme with penny) says she decided to turn professional for two reasons: 1) as long as she had to practice twice a day, shun smoking and drinking, abide the stares of the curious, she might as well get something out of it besides entertainment and silverware; 2) hers is a consuming desire to be a cinema star. Last summer at the neat Henie country place just outside Oslo, she discussed with her parents her longtime ambition. They heartily approved the idea. Wary of professional managers, including Sonja's faithful swain, 40 year-old Promoter Jefferson...
...Oath Bill is the result of his unwillingness to involve the University in a legal battle. Professor Mather does not need to "extricate himself rather gracefully" from anything. He has shown himself willing to take personal responsibility for his action. If there were not men like this who shun the ineffectual mollycoddle ways of the CRIMSON, democratic government would have vanished long ago, if indeed it could ever have appeared...