Word: refraining
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wrong. We should not be continually calling foot-faults on such occasions . . . particularly ... in the first months of a new Administration. 3) When we believe the Republican Party and the Administration to be in serious error, however, we should speak out vigorously . . . But in doing so we should refrain from attacking the motives or character of the President, or of our opponents...
Whether the rule will, as advertised, "de-commercialize" football, is questionable. Those schools which have been buying specialists are unlikely to refrain from competition for all-around players. Limited substitution's main value lies in the way it re-emphasises balanced football as a sport, and the physical benefits to be derived therefrom. More than ever, conditioning will be an essential to football success...
...Dexadrine is definitely dangerous to one's health. Stimulants such as "No-Doz" often cause severe nervous recation which, although temporary, is handicapping. In most instances these stimulants do more harm than good when used for the purpose of keeping awake to prepare for examinations. I urge that students refrain from the use of these stimulants with above facts in mind...
...think that my two sons, Arthur A. Ballantine, Jr. '36 and John W. Ballantine '42 really got more discipline from the Crime than they did later on from the Navy. I cannot refrain from referring to the fact that my older son, Arthur, Jr. of 1936 who helped to pilot the Crime through days of the attempted split-off of the Journal, is now back at his real interest and with his wife is publishing a small daily paper in Durango, Colorado, where I know he is helping to spread the CRIMSON spirit. Arthur A. Ballantine '04 (Former Undersecretary...
...employee whose country undergoes a change in government (as in Czechoslovakia when the Communists took over) should be allowed to keep his U.N. job, even if his own government objects, provided that he adheres to the laws of "the host country." Such employees, of course, should refrain from activities against their own government. This covers a particularly urgent question facing Lie, whose staff includes several anti-Communists from Iron Curtain countries, anti-Tito Yugoslavs and anti-Perón Argentines, whose governments would like to have them replaced by people of their own choice...