Word: shuns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harvard develops the critical sense, let this be evident in your reviews, and the musicology be damned. Let your columns be a professional oasis amid the "academic stink" of college culture. And finally, shun the sweeping positive judgments which Downes, if not Cassidy, would tremble to make. Hugh Creighten Murray...
...town cemetery they paid sober honor to their former leader, Field Marshal Rommel, and to their comrades dead in the African campaign. Frau Rommel, who was present, leaned weeping on the arm of her 22-year-old son Manfred. The veterans swore to support the democratic German state, shun party politics, uphold the military virtues of bravery and comradeship...
...blue-grey Quicksilver, a sleek, new, 31-foot hydroplane. Devil-may-care Mathiot, a Portland, Ore. tugboat operator, was not really expecting Quicksilver to win the cup. Neither were Seattle's boat-racing fans, who turned out at nearby Lake Washington to cheer their hometown entry, Slo-Mo-Shun V, which set two records in the first of three final runs -97.826 m.p.h. for a three-mile lap, 91.766 m.p.h. for the 30-mile heat...
...Skipper Mathiot wasn't complaining. While Slo-Mo-Shun V also took the second heat, Mathiot and Crewman Tom Whitaker sat it out in the pit, working on a balky engine. "Aw, we're in this race for fun," said Mathiot. "What the hell...
Horrified race officials ran up a red flag, fired their signal cannon. After ten minutes Slo-Mo-Shun V's winning driver...