Word: refrained
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...social problems, and that it affords a possibility of useful action based on the knowledge acquired in the course of these discussions. It would therefore, be unreasonable to demand that those individuals (a minority of our chapter) who are members of both the N.S.L. and the Liberal Club, should refrain from presenting their views to the latter...
Although we have no desire to set ourselves up as a modern Mrs. Grundy we cannot refrain from protesting against the weird noises which sometimes emanate from the throats of Technology undergraduates. It is the custom for certain of the more musically inclined to whistle or even lift their voices in song (to be polite) whenever they leave a class. Perhaps it is a song of rejoicing or merely an expression of well being but in any case the result is apt to be distressing to anyone unfortunate enough to be within earshot...
...long tin shed. On its floor piles and piles of brown leaves, rows and rows of piles. Down the long rows slowly moves an auctioneer chanting numbers, numbers and more numbers, singsong fashion. Behind him trail the buyers. Every eight, ten. fifteen seconds comes the only refrain that breaks the monotony of the chant: "Sold to this company" or "Sold to that." Thus every autumn since before the Civil War the U. S. tobacco crop has gone to market. Last week, however, singing auctioneers were silenced in Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, North Carolina...
...which brings me to the subject in hand. Why did the Austrian Roman Catholic Bishops suddenly order the clergy to refrain from all participation in political activity after December 15? For about fifty years, and especially in the last fifteen, the priests have played a major and often decisive part in the Austrian parliament, provinces, and municipal councils through the Christian Socialist Party, and more particularly in their more personal roles as keeper of the consciences of the faithful...
...Comintern, Third International or World Communist Party which is technically superior to both and retains its Moscow headquarters. On the other hand, M. Litvinoff promised that "it will be the fixed policy of the Government" of Russia (he could not promise for the Party headed by Josef Stalin) to "refrain" in the most scrupulous manner from any interference in U. S. affairs; to "restrain" from such interference "all organizations of the Soviet Government or under its direct or indirect control, including organizations in receipt of any financial assistance from it"; to refuse to harbor on Russian soil any group "which...