Word: forbearance
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...Jersey. President Walter Clark Teagle of Standard of N. J. was first to protest when Vacuum Oil's and Standard of N. Y.'s Russian coup became public knowledge three weeks ago. President Teagle has long been an intimate friend of Sir Henri Deterding. Their companies carefully forbear intruding into each other's markets. Said President Teagle: "The impression has been created, both in Europe and in this country, that the Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey, in the face of the present overproduction in the U. S., is buying Russian oil to displace products of American origin...
...indolent woman's man. The girl is a prig. The other son, bright and gentle, joins the revolutionaries. They are, as Pyotr was, boys without any family tradition. The seed of their difficulty, as of Russia's, was the so sudden liberation and enrichment of their peasant forbear by his aristocratic master at the Emancipation. The Russian bear did not learn to dance in a generation. In two it forgot how to dig for roots and nourishment...
...Kindly forbear to forward me another copy of your unspeakably illiterate and muckraking sheet, which to my mind even "out-Klans" the Klan and similar sheets...
This is the Day of All Fools and in the eyes of most educators in general and Glenn Frank in particular there is no greater fool than an intellectual vagabond. On this, my adopted natal day I cannot forbear giving my assailants good cause to smirk over me. "Mad," they'll say, "quite mad." But at the unholy hour of nine I shall have quitted the sleep of the untroubled, which all vagabonds enjoy, for the heights of Emerson J and the discourse of Mr. Prescott on Ductless Glands...
...cannot forbear protesting the absurd criticism of TIME which you saw fit to publish in LETTERS, Aug. 31 issue - from which circumstance it derives its only claim for consideration. Never did I see a more inane, vacuous assertion than that the editing of TIME "is purely a mechanical operation requiring no literary ability." For it seems to me that more cleverness, more brains, go into the composition of a single issue of TIME than any other journal I know. It's so bright, for one thing, that I have definitely decided to cancel my subscription to "our leading humorous...