Word: refering
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...things go on, all the players will get easier, more friendly and familiar with their audiences, remembering that refer Pan is much more a party for every one than a stage play...
...page 1 TIME, Oct. 27, 1924, you refer to Methodism as "that sect." I am aware of the very general meaning of the word "sect," but you cannot be ignorant of the evil connotation of that term. A recent dictionary of recognized authority makes this distinction: "Sect is an opprobrious and denomination an honorable term for the same body...
...August 6, 1923) left undone one thing that it should have done: the settlement of the Iraq-Turkish boundary.* It was understood that Britain (holding a League of Nations mandate for Iraq) and Turkey were to solve the problem between themselves; and, if agreement were impossible, they were to refer their dispute to the League...
...From the noun cretin, meaning idiot or village fool. A cretin is a creature of nightmare, humanity's most loathsome being. The word, even in adjectival form, is seldom used jocularly by people of discrimination, since one is seldom called upon to refer with jocularity to the most abject embodiment of mankind on earth...
...even inclined to believe that any student who has honestly cultivated "the capacity to use facts and see their relations" will find it impossible to forget the facts themselves. Too often this selective process upon which the writer lays such stress is automatic and signifies only careless work. I refer, by way of contrast, to the English university graduate who does not forget and yet does not find his vision stunted. A recent CRIMSON editorial described vividly one such man "who closed his desk at the War office at four and at six was delivering a lecture on aesthetics...