Word: refrains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...voting for only a few chosen candidates, is distinctly contrary to the spirit of the elections; it is not contrary to the present regular ions, for the reason that there are name. The remedy here is clear; the Student Council should vote a regulation prescribing that voters must either refrain from balloting for a committee, or must ballot for the full membership...
Telefonica Safe. The heavy, heavy threat that International Telephone & Telegraph Corp.'s big Spanish subsidiary might lose its franchise was lifted last week. When Left-wing deputies demanded that the bill abrogating the contract be brought up for debate, Premier Azana requested that the Cortes refrain from discussion, declaring: "The Government takes full responsibility for the negotiations [with Compania Telefonica National de Espana for a new contract] . . . will stand or fall on the question." The Cortes voted 181 to 11 to let the Government stand, but not until after two excited deputies had started to pummel each other...
...Madison Square Garden. The bout had not ended in a fall. Instead, after stumbling about the ring with their heads locked like two foolishly embattled elks, Lewis and Steele separated, glared, grunted. Steele whacked Lewis on the face with the back of his hand. Referee Forbes warned him to refrain. Steele whacked Lewis three times more. Instead of disqualifying Steele, Referee Forbes warned him again. A wrestler who had helped Lewis train for the match, lop-eared John Evko, climbed into the ring in his bathrobe, whacked Challenger Steele. Referee Forbes tried unsuccessfully to push Wrestler Evko...
...power companies often become involved in bitter price wars in selling to local distributing concerns or to big industrial users. Last winter the Big Five signed a peace pact, agreeing to respect one another's customers, to pool power at times of peak load or droughts, to refrain from building new plants without permission of the other units...
While the English language is in an eternal state of change, and is dependent on factors which prevent hide-bound grammatical rules from being constantly applicable, one cannot refrain from taking issue with the radical principles which Miss Center announces as those of her organization, the National Council of Teachers of English. Miss Center would let down the grammatical bars, allowing many colloquialisms which are considered bad usage; she would make it the function of English teachers to "integrate and direct the forces and trends in contemporary American life" by teaching pupils how to listen to radios, how to read...