Word: refrained
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...continued its attack, said "its importance warrants full discussion by the Yale public." And in The Harkness Hoot, newest, most forthright of Yale journals, appeared "The Elks in Our Midst," by Richard S. Childs, Yale junior, suggesting that the Senior Societies be abolished by boycott, that the Junior class refrain from appearing "like slaves for sale upon the campus on Tap Day." The Yale Daily News, edited by juniors, and whose chairman is automatically in line for tapping, had printed Keysman Hobson's letter, and reprinted the Weekly editorials. Last week, making no mention of Societies, it said...
...members of the Wesley Foundation at Harvard do hereby express most emphatically our strong objection to the proposed. Harvard War Memorial Chapel, and that we petition the President and Fellows of Harvard University either to commemorate all Harvard men who gave their lives in the World War, or to refrain from putting the Memorial in the form of a Chapel...
...Reno's mayoralty election. Campaign refrain of the chief candidate: "A broad and tolerant viewpoint...
...Lampoon, the CRIMSON offers its heartiest congratulations, but can not refrain from wondering how much this is a case of Shanghal Jester. The Daily maid has made the man from Mt. Auburn Street's bed; now they must lie in it. Old Miss Primson of Plympton Street will hasten her knitting...
...majority in our party, would approach this question in a niggling, grudging spirit?who would have had forced out of their reluctant hands one concession after another?for God's sake let them choose another man to lead them! But, if they are in a minority, let them refrain from throwing difficulties in the way of those who have undertaken an almost superhuman task on the successful accomplishment of which depends the prosperity of the British Empire...