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During the Christmas holidays, a group of ten Ski Club delegates withdrew to the Club cabin, and other members competed in Giant Slaloms at Cannon and Cranmore Mountains in New Hampshire, Cabot noted...
Superstitions & Fads. Doctors are often stymied by their patients' superstitious resistance to modern treatment. When the Government ordered cremation of the bodies of plague victims, relatives reacted so fiercely (on the ground that cremation would destroy the souls of the deceased) that the Government withdrew its order. Millions of Chinese women still modestly refuse to submit to a doctor's examination; instead, they keep handy a "medicine woman"-a small ivory nude on which they point out the site of their pains. Medical fads & fancies are prevalent even among China's upper classes; a current...
A.F.L. President William Green urged his unions to withdraw portal-to-portal suits, settle all claims over the bargaining table. More significantly, C.I.O.'s big United Steel Workers and United Automobile Workers withdrew eight claims against Detroit manufacturers totaling nearly $8 million...
Into the Unknown. Fermi ran the test. At 9:54 a.m. he gave an order. A whining motor withdrew the automatic control rod. The Geiger counters on the instrument panel clicked a little faster; a pen drew a slightly higher curve on a strip of paper...
...respected though not particularly distinguished Quaker minister.* But in 1815, at the age of 67, he was moved to preach against the evangelistic doctrines which he felt were threatening Quaker mysticism.† At the Yearly Meeting of 1827, differences were too deep even for Friendly reconciliation: country Quakers withdrew to form a separate meeting. Though they never formally accepted the teachings or leadership of Elias Hicks, the seceders were known as "Hicksites" for want of a better label...