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Word: abstainers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Class of 1911 to pile on their own abysmal mediocrities. I am not now, and never have been a member of that dismal class. Thank God, I am 1910, and I suggest that if 1911 wants to wash its own very dirty linen in public, it at least abstain from splashing its cleaner neighbors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 28, 1936 | 9/28/1936 | See Source »

...mouth," could be cured instantly by chloramine, a mouthwash containing chlorine (TIME, July 1, 1935). Last week in the Journal of the American Medical Association two other investigators flatly contradicted Dr. Haggard with a report indicating that the only way to escape onion or garlic breath is to abstain from eating onions or garlic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Garlic Breath | 8/17/1936 | See Source »

...first place it is illegal to give the Nazi salute or sing Nazi songs in Austria. Moreover, Adolf Hitler has just made a pact with Kurt von Schuschnigg pledging Germany rigorously to abstain from interfering in the political affairs of Austria (TIME, July 20). On the strength of this agreement, Austrian amnesty was granted thousands of imprisoned Nazis. Last week these brawny fellows turned out to heckle Prince von Starhemberg and President Miklas. The Prince had the advantage of speaking into a microphone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRIA: Hitler's Promise | 8/10/1936 | See Source »

...needy in cash and kind. Other jobless Mormons will be put to work on a church-building program, cost of which will be shared between localities and a national Mormon fund. This fund is to be swelled by contributions from solvent Mormons who will be expected to abstain from at least two meals on one Sunday each month (minimum estimated cost: 5? per meal). Mormons who have been slack about tithing 10% of income to their Church will be prodded into action...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Mormons Off Relief | 6/8/1936 | See Source »

...Hudson River "is Christ Church. Poughkeepsie, N. Y., whose rector. Dr. Alexander Griswold Cummins, is an energetic and articulate low churchman (TIME, Nov. 6, 1933 et ante). To insure against high church practices, the Christ Church parish board last month passed a by-law requiring the incumbent "to abstain from the use of any ornaments, forms, services, or ritual which are not definitely allowed by the rubrics of the Book of "Common Prayer or the Canons of the Protestant Episcopal Church...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Joke | 8/5/1935 | See Source »

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