Word: abstaining
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Whereas, the use of intoxicating liquors as a beverage is productive of pauperism, degradation and crime, and believing it is our duty to discourage that which produces more evil than good, we therefore pledge ourselves to abstain from the use of intoxicating liquors as a beverage...
Minor Accomplishments. A commission of jurists to meet at Rio de Janeiro in 1925 to codify international law; a recommendation to American states to abstain from shipping alcoholic beverages to prohibition countries...
...Anti-Blasphemy Congress was held in Turin. During its session a procession was held, in which banners were carried inviting the populace to abstain from the use of bad language. These banners had printed across them " Blasphemy is ignorance." " Blasphemy dishonors us abroad. " " Blashphemy degrades man." After the parade an " Iti" dressed in a frock coat and a tall hat showed the assembled crowd how to take an oath without using bad language. This over, an anti-blasphemy hymn, specially composed for the occasion, was sung by sympathizers...
...first-named for an injunction against the New York Sugar Exchange. A host of local political figures are also joining in the search for the guilty parties, notably Mayor Hylan, who has urged a consumers' boycott. Several women's organizations have announced a ferocious willingness to abstain from icings on cakes and other luxuries, and promise mass meetings and other mighty events in the near future...
...writing". Among other subjects, he wrote on the prohibition of some books which were deemed immoral, Professor Lowes bringing out by reading some of his writing the deep belief of Milton that virtue consists "not in avoiding the conflict, but in the power to see, to know, and yet abstain...