Word: refraining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Honorary Bricklayers. In the refrain of "Squire" Harge, superintendent of the mission, he must "husk the corn and shell it and finish the fall plowing and get up some fence posts and flail out the wheat and boss the Indian women while they dig the rest of the turnips and potatoes and move that big stone under my kitchen stove and put a new floor in my sitting-room and there's some repairs on the cart and we need a new privy and a couple of ox-yokes and I have a clock that...
Director of Athletics William J. Bingham '16 has requested all students attending tonight's game to refrain from throwing beer cans on the ice, molesting the referees, or causing interruption of the game in any way. Such conduct, the referees have stated, will cause immediate forfeiture of the game to Dartmouth...
...consider the issuance of a joint declaration" asserting that the U.S.S.R. and the U.S. had no intention of resorting to war? Stalin's answer was yes. "Now, I confess that I find this answer puzzling," said Acheson, since both nations were already pledged in the U.N. charter to refrain from "the threat or use of force...
...Adolphe Menjou, stopped rocking occasionally to advise the lawyers: "Start sawing wood." Deadpan, Judge Medina listened to a tearful outburst on racial discrimination from Counsel George Crockett. The next day when Crockett, a bespectacled Negro, said that he regretted weeping, Medina advised: "It is generally better for counsel to refrain from weeping in the courtroom . . . And I understand you promise not to do it again...
...controversial character of Judge Webster Thayer, the jury and the unorthodox way in which it was chosen, the witnesses and their testimony, and the involved question of the evidence. Although the purpose of this book is to present an objective view of the case, the authors could obviously not refrain from unconsciously injecting their own judgments. Professor Morgan writes: "Against a masterful and none too scrupulous prosecution was opposed a hopelessly mismanaged defense before a stupid trial judge." This comment is part of the chapter devoted to the so-called Dedham Trial, which is followed by a very detailed examination...