Word: demurs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Fortunately there seems to be no such danger. The most these molders of college opinion ask is that the football team be reduced to "the present status of the crew," meaning "good training and a correct balance of importance and pleasure." As to the "pleasure," the crew man might demur; but he will be one with undergraduate and old grad in the matter of "importance." --New York Times
...according to the Russian delegation, which has caused no end of trouble at Genoa. The Communist, who never admitted the right of private property in the first place, cannot understand how anyone can find anything extreme or unreasonable in "expropriation". When the other members of the family of nations demur, and refuse to allow their citizens in Russia to suffer by this piece of Bolshevik logic, M. Kakowsky and his colleagues assume the attitude of injured innocence...