Word: refraining
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...type of religion in the world today. America is also a very intolerant people. The highest type belongs only to about 1 percent. 50 percent are a bunch of slaves to creeds and fears and superstitions. The rest, the so-called "irreligious" are not so bad off however. I refrain from condemning them. A religious from condemning them. A religious bigot is worse than an American heathen...
...professors could stand the strain of criticism based on the criterion of the cost of their lectures. With monetary calculation of the value of each day's activity would go the freedom and liberalism of college life; the most enjoyable spirit is certainly that of the old Eli refrain: Oh! father and mother pay all the bills and we have...
...occupied Palatinate, Bavaria and the Reich on the other. It was specifically stated that this provisional regime would last until peace and order had been restored and until all the administrative machinery had been started. A warning was issued to the people to keep the peace and to refrain from reprisals against the Separatists under severe penalties...
...appearance of another final club, in full panoply of exclusiveness, closed doors, restricted membership, and all, perhaps shows all too clearly the strong undercurrent in undergraduate social life--the prevailing wish not to see others but to refrain from being seen. The specific club cannot, of course, be criticized for changing its name and classification. Only it seems unfortunate that in choosing to follow the existing final clubs in these two features it should have chosen to follow them also in its organization and policy...
...Tokyo and other cities and towns who were stricken by the calamity unfeignedly grateful for your humane help and compassion, but the whole Japanese people shares the feeling. We have been impressed more than ever by the fact that all men are brothers throughout the world and cannot refrain from offering you our sincere thanks...