Word: refrains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...submarines and the abolition of poison gases. Unfortunately, no method of enforcing the abolition of these instruments is available, except by moral sanction. Events of the past months have not strengthened the world's faith in such paper phrases. It is impossible to believe that any nation would refrain from using such potent weapons in a major war, pledge or no pledge...
...your acceptance of the value of the Classics you release me from the necessity of writing their apologia, although I cannot refrain from stating at this point that I believe their study has a universal value as a prerequisite to a full culture...
...wrote: "Since the unbridled race for armaments is on the one hand the effect of the rivalry among nations and on the other the cause of the withdrawal of enormous sums from the public wealth, and hence not the smallest of contributors to the current extraordinary- crisis, we cannot refrain from renewing on this subject the wise admonitions of our predecessor * which thus far have not been heeded...
...ideas of relief and adjourned without any political eruptions, the President was a happy and relieved man. Secretaries Stimson and Mellon, as U. S. delegates in London, agreed to a 90-day renewal of the $100,000,000 international loan to Germany and to a proposition whereby bankers would refrain from withdrawing their $1,200,000,000 short-term commercial credits from the Reich. Though Wall Street scowled disapproval at these limited results and foreign exchanges declined for a lack of a more constructive plan, President Hoover declared...
...when on Saturday the Harvard runners and field event men will contest for laurels with the men from Dartmouth in the only major track meet that will take place in the Stadium this spring. The Dartmouth team will arrive in Cambridge on Friday evening, and the Harvard forces will refrain from practice on that day, while the Stadium is rolled and groomed for the meet...