Word: desist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Copper ... A pound of Raisins and Proportionate Almonds . . . A pair of Shoe Buckles cost five shillings three pence." He admitted to himself that "My bowels yern towards Mrs. Denison," but added, perhaps with an eye to her lack of money, "I think God directs me in his Providence to desist...
...opinion, book advertising trades too much upon the sensational-when it has too little of the sensational to offer. If books were food or drug products-and some of them are all too often in the latter category-book publishers would be the principal recipients of FTC cease and desist orders ... The first requisite ... is a good product . . . One of the first things the publishers ought to do is to pick better books...
...because it printed an editorial on Dr. Alfred C. Kinsey's "Sexual Behavior in the Human Male" stirred up a whirlpool of protest among former Swarthmore men now in University graduate schools, and Swarthmore President John Nason may soon be bombarded with letters from Cambridge attacking his cease and desist order...
President John W. Nason, in issuing the cease and desist order upon the paper asserted that the article in question "violated the canons of good taste...
...murals? Artist Bernard Zakheim, who had painted one, found out last week what had happened to his. Visiting the University of California Medical School in San Francisco, Zakheim came upon a man busily pasting wallpaper over his mural history of medicine in California. After urging the paperhanger to desist, he bustled desperately off to find the dean of the college. Sorry, said the dean, "they are very interesting, but ... for years now faculty members have complained. The murals distract students attending lectures...