Word: abstentionism
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Doctrine of "Abstention." This was certainly news, to the U.S. and the world -especially the "consistently." Along with Britain, the U.S. had been sitting on the Italian lid for 15 months, since the Italian armistice. Now the U.S. suddenly jumped off the lid. Two days later Ed Stettinius affirmed that...
Slosson attributes his success to: 1) abstention from liquor and tobacco; 2) training; 3) a natural gift for the game. A grandnephew of James Fenimore Cooper, he played billiards with some of the literary figures of his youth. Last week he recalled them the way a seaman recalls far ports...
First thing Agent Rieth did when he arrived in Rio three months ago was to call a meeting of German consuls in South America, set up a commission composed of two Japanese, an Italian, a German, to look after Axis interests in Latin America. A subsidiary, the Inter-American Abstention...
Migraine. Blinding, pulsating, onesided headaches are caused by a hereditary peculiarity of blood vessels in the brain and neck. An emotional upset or an irritating food may cause them to open wide; then blood goes pounding through with extra force. Remedies: 1) a calm life; 2) abstention from annoying foods...
Meanwhile coal reserves diminished to a point where industry would begin to feel a real shortage within a fortnight. Railroads in mining areas, deprived of their biggest traffic, laid off men by thousands. Big B. & 0., in worse plight for its own coal supplies than most, began to "confiscate" (and...