Word: eschewing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Until men eschew relations with women, men, and the animal kingdom, Social Relations is pertinent of the livelihood and enjoyment of every student. It is a valuable major, be one's future buried in a monastery, in business or the professions, or in the Fiji Islands. It even has something to offer the confirmed hermit, for it provides much enlightenment on conversation with the self...
...known fidelity, walking after ten o'clock, modestly to demand the cause; and if they appear ill-minded, to watch them narrowly . . ." Among the early "Rules and Regulations of Harvard College," issued at about the same time, was one enjoining students to "be slow to speak, and eschew not only oaths, lies and uncertain rumours, but likewise all idle, foolish, bitter scoffing, frothy, wanton words and offensive gestures...
...McWilliams would naturally fall for. But, they insist, to stay on the land and make a living from it, the small farmer must be come a highly proficient scientist as well as something of an artist. He must master the tricks of contour plowing and strip cropping. He must eschew the temptation to bet everything on a single cash crop, for that way, in years of overproduction, lies bankruptcy...
...swings at certain Republicans: "The Republican Party must completely forsake the tempting notion that it can win by the amalgamation of the dissident groups in America -the narrow nationalists, the economically selfish . . . above all, the religious and racial bigots. In other words, we Republicans must take the affirmative, eschew the negative...
...will assemble next month. She outlined convention plans: i) to lambaste Union Now, and foreign-language schools; 2) to praise the work of "that great American, Martin Dies." Said buxom Mrs. Pouch: "Mr. Dies can never be discredited in our eyes." At their convention, DARters will probably forgo corsages, eschew orchids. Mrs. Pouch said that she had appealed to the Illinois delegation to see to it that the convention this year is not "lavish." Some of the delegates, said Mrs. Pouch, are even planning to wear old clothes. Added President Pouch: "We are going to emulate President General Mrs. Russell...