Word: abstaining
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...spread the gospel were received enthusiastically by the people, and he soon gained so much power that the "medicine men" tried to kill him, and he withdrew to settle in a new place with his followers. The dwellers in the new village were placed under strict pledges to abstain from idleness and vice, and a model town soon grew up. Another proof of capabilities of the natives is the success of the schools established from the scanty appropriations of the United States, When the first school was opened in Sitka over one hundred boys appeared, eager to be educated...
...especially requested that every one who visits the tank while it is occupied by any crew be careful to remain behind the rope and to abstain from talking or otherwise annoying the men who are at work...
...Saturday, would be most ungentlemanly. The fact that ladies are to be present should do more towards emphasizing this than anything we can say; but at the same time, under a high pressure of excitement, even gentleman are apt to forget themselves sometimes. The spectators should remember also to abstain from undue applause and encouragement for the contestants until the close of the events. If these little things are remembered, we prophesy an interesting and successful meeting...
...Oberlin students who were suspended for attending a performance of Richard III will be reinstated on promising to abstain from the theatre in the future...
...said that the German students are not successful as oarsmen, on account of their inability to abstain from the use of tobacco and beer...