Word: refraining
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...second the motion that we invite a professed non-radical to "mouth his doctrines"--is that correct--at Harvard. May I also suggest that when a speaker as interesting as Mr. Humphries is found to sustain the other side, we refrain from attributing to him unpopular sentiments about American government; from indignant letters demanding his suppression; from veiled editorials suggesting that he is "not the sort of man"; from abusing him indiscriminately as a "subtle propagandist" and a "credulous sentimentalist;" and from the argumentum ad hominem generally. Apart from any question of courtesy or dignity, this sort of thing...
...trouble is that the Russians can arrange a revolution in less time than a newspaper can go to press,--they are faster than the Mexicans. So we give up, and until definite news has reached us that one party is in power at least twenty-four hours, we shall refrain from posting the Russian score. The main difficulty in attempting to be a military critic of Russian affairs comes from the fact that when the report reaches us that Kerensky is marching upon Petrograd with 200,000 men we never are quite certain whether the army is being...
...previous classes during three changing centuries, the College gives greeting. With the greeting, those who are not the College, but, being upper classmen, think they are the College, might give advice, since advice is always expected. But again, since advice is never heeded, they will refrain...
Knowing that addition of advice makes for subtraction of wit, in spite of the strong yearnings of the counsellor, we shall refrain from making the usual comments, surpassing the usual exhortations, or triplicating the usual golden prophecies...
...considering the organization of a system for establishing and maintaining world peace, we must refrain from over idealization; although we look to an ideal to which our proposed system aims to attain, our principal attention must be focused on the factors to be considered at the birth and during the infancy of our system...