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...past year, Mr. Warren declared he had found evidence of NYA misspending (on travel expenses, Christmas cards, excessive telephoning, etc.). But his gravest charge was that NYA, to keep up its quota of enrollees and justify its appropriations ($161,000,000 this year), had asked Army recruiting officers to refrain from trying to enlist NYA boys...
...instead of over it, but they were also aimed almost entirely, through necessity, at the center of that Quaker front office. With a pair of opposing flankmen as effective as Kuczynski and Nelson (195 and 212 pounds, respectively) the Harvard signal caller Franny Lee, soon found it advisable to refrain from trying to go around the ends...
...Composer Dvorak repaid the U.S. for what he took. To the tune of the most popular of the many Humoresques he wrote, many a U.S. convivium sings: Passengers will please refrain from flushing toilets while the train is standing in the station, I love...
...Puerto Ricans (Jesus Figueroa and Efrain Garcia Angulo) dedicated a waltz, Dreaming Puerto Rico, to the U.S. Army and Navy. Its refrain (English words by Sr. Garcia Angulo...
...second telegram (unsigned) read: "If German or Italian planes fly over Levant, please refrain from any reply. If any of these planes alight on your fields, receive them and ask instructions. British planes must be attacked at any cost...