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Word: refrained (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...degree of attractiveness to the student body is inimical to sound instruction. The platform would be strewn with sawdust, and the lecture hall become a circus ring for pedagogic antics. Eminent professors at Harvard have on occasion carried their idealism so far as to request that students refrain from applause at the end of the hour, lest the educator quite humanly give way to the pot-boiling popularizer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COMMISSION BASIS | 1/27/1931 | See Source »

...auditors' reports, I have them. You may peruse them and weep. Your statement that the destruction of my wrecked "web" brought down several Boston trust companies is perfidious. Under any other form of government, it would call for a challenge to a duel. For this time, I shall refrain from perforating your hide on condition that you make public amend by printing this letter verbatim...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 26, 1931 | 1/26/1931 | See Source »

...ambiguity of the editorial settles only one thing--that the He is hard to please and will not refrain, on the grounds of politeness, from expressing his distaste. It leaves us with the question--what does He mean by his scornful terminology of "this deb business," and would he extend his weeding out, if that is what he means, into all the fields where he is apt to meet the ladies? Radcliffe Daily...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Weep No More My Ladies | 11/7/1930 | See Source »

...unable to move the machine he did succeed in stealing a brand new topcoat that I had locked up in my sedan before going to my first class of the morning. I am sending this letter to the CRIMSON in the hope that Editor will warn the students to refrain from leaving valuables in parked automobiles. Yours, very truly, Charles Elliot Draper...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Stop, Look, and Listen | 10/16/1930 | See Source »

...Another important fact which the wets refrain from mentioning is that the increase in arrests for drunkenness in this state all came before the so-called 'Baby Volstead' law. The entire increase came between...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CARVER WRITES BOOKLET ON "BABY VOLSTEAD" ACT | 10/6/1930 | See Source »

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