Word: shun
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...drawn for the new catalogue, have found termite species in every area of the world except the Arctic and Antarctic. The study of termites is something of a challenge, even to such a determined student as Snyder. The trouble is, most termites are blind and soft-bodied, shun light, and always conceal themselves in the earth, wood, or any other of the more than 150 different objects (ranging from toy blocks to Egyptian mummies) in which they have been discovered. Termites are fond of wood because their digestive tracts harbor a specific kind of protozoa which enables them to digest...
...more equitable emphasis on the "minor" sports. The inevitable rejoinder to this supposedly visionary project is the point that commercialized football pays for all Harvard athletics. But if the College recognizes that athletics are an inherent part of the educational program, as necessary of professors and laboratories, can it shun its obligation to defray the expenses of a complete enlightened, wholesome sports program? Michael J. Scully...
...Hollywood, where actresses traditionally shun fleshy publicity poses once they become stars, pressagents gingerly asked 42-year-old Barbara Stanwyck to get into a bathing suit for some photographs. Barbara beamed: "I've been perfectly willing to pose for cheesecake art, but nobody ever asked...
...says he, have one thing in common: "They are written by men who never possibly could have found a bee tree, at least by pursuing the methods they describe." Sample fallacies: a handkerchief soaked in anise will induce bees to point the way to their hive (actually they will shun the lure); a "beeline" home is straight (it is really erratic because "no two bees have exactly the same idea as to the best way home...
Both men do better in their own special courses, Elliott in the British Empire and in "The Principles of Popular Government"--a pretty easy theory course for those who shun Professor Freidrich's monster...