Word: abstaining
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...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...
...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...
...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...
...same verdict. Even rawboned Danish Foreign Minister Dr. Peter Munch had no good to say of his country's huge Nazi neighbor. He merely said that he knew everyone would understand why Denmark "could not'' (i. e. dared not) vote against Germany and must abstain...
...taper, tall enough to burn for 24 hours, flickers in memory of the dead. The pious abstain from food, drink and all other gratifications of material desires, from one sunset until three stars may be seen in the heavens the following night. God is balancing his books for the year. In the home it is well to examine one's soul; in the synagog to chant "Kol Nidre" petitioning forgiveness for vows made and inadvertently unfulfilled...