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...Transport operators have conspired to shun the 'chute because of ignorance of its practicability, stinginess and fear that patronage would be frightened away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Parachutes for Passengers? | 2/15/1932 | See Source »

...Further, I promise, insofar as in me lies, to shun the public press or public gatherings of laymen where my attitude might be regarded as seeking self-advancement; to avoid selfishness and commercialism in my professional practice; to influence patients to appreciate their financial responsibilities to their medical advisers; to adjust my compensation to the circumstances of my patients and to make such charges commensurate with the services rendered and to avoid discrediting my profession by seeking unwarranted compensation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: College of Physicians | 4/6/1931 | See Source »

...Church's goal would be "the establishment of the Kingdom of God in all the Earth." It would shun "all political alliances and entanglements and other associations that would tend to lower its spiritual tone and to subtract from its spiritual power...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: American Church? | 11/24/1930 | See Source »

...This custom is being revived to restore interest and make Ivy week the biggest event of a senior's life at Pennsylvanta," says the newspaper. How strange a way to promote campus interest. College seniors as Oliver Twists, Professors with thin skins shun Penn. --Oregon Daily Emerald...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sunny Side Up | 5/21/1930 | See Source »

...travelers going South for the Winter, North for the Summer. Unlike the walkers of Germany who are out for the sport of pedestrianism and who want no rides, unlike the troops of unemployed in England who move from town to town on foot to get a dole and who shun on automobile, the U. S. hitch-hiker is going places as fast as possible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRANSPORTATION: Hitch Hikers | 4/7/1930 | See Source »

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