Word: shuns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shun such ignorant temerity...
...affects the investor who is looking over his portfolio of stocks, Mr. Callender says, "it is difficult to find an industry that would not in some way contribute to success in war, directly or indirectly; and there seems more idealism than logic in the attitude of those who would shun he making of bombs or shells or hand grenades while approving the production of the motor cars or ships or cloth or food, which enable an army to hurl bombs and shells and grenades...
Beware the Bankerwock, my son! The teeth that bite, the claws that snatch! Beware the Broker bird and shun The fumious Stockexsnatch...
...tone. When funeral fashions changed, and speeches gave way to flowers, Don Tomas tried vainly to meet the competition. He pared his rates four times. He threw in six Latin quotations free. He introduced a ten minute oration for $1. But modern Argentines continued to buy flowers, to shun Don Tomas' speeches. Last week Don Tomas died and was buried, with flowers, without speeches...
...psychologist looks askance at the CRIMSON candidate. For how can one explain the inconsistencies in the man's character? Parents shudder at the proposition and advise their children to shun such torture. Roommates make up their minds that a black sheep has deserted the fold. And through it all the candidate alone remains serene. For him it is not torture, the others just do not understand. He delights in the scoops, he gloats over his interviews with celebrities and thrills to the click-clack of many typewriters at work...