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...action--action which might destroy the necessary confidence. I have found Dr. Farnsworth's book most sensible and even wise. But although, as a teacher, I have had some experience with emotional troubles in students, still I speak only as a layman. I will therefore urge your readers to withhold any judgement on this book until they read it for themselves, and to ignore Mr. Jencks' highly irresponsible statements...
...decided to withhold the real nature of the President's illness from the public for hours after the diagnosis, and why was that decision made? See NATIONAL AFFAIRS, Occlusion...
Dean Smith has rightly said, "These things must go through channels." The police and University should withhold action until the facts have been established and a cooling-off period has passed. Justice should be done, but not in a kangaroo court presided over by a bulldog...
Last week Erhard appealed to the six-nation European Coal and Steel Community at Luxembourg to withhold approval of the Ruhr coal-price hike. To back up the appeal, Erhard wheeled up his biggest price-defense weapon-his power to let more competing imports into the country. As a starter, he ordered his ministry to prepare schemes to slash rail freights on foreign oil and U.S. coal. At week's end the coalmen were still holding their prices up, and Erhard was stubbornly getting ready to fire the gun of low-priced imports that always in the past...
Patiently, precisely, Durant portrays the manifold consequences of Luther's revolt. Every man might now be his own theologian; every state (if it had the power) might withhold its allegiance to Rome. The tortures and burnings of heretics on both sides became part of each nation's struggle to maintain its chosen order. Britain's Henry VIII, for example, quarreled with Papists as well as Protestants when he deemed them a menace to his royal law and order, was apt to burn both on the same day. Luther condemned radical sectarians-Zwinglians, Anabaptists, peasant-reformers-with righteous...