Word: hamper
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...became Assistant Secretary and Treasurer of the Western Electric Co. at Chicago. The Bell System for years has been encouraging alert college graduates to enter its organization. Thorough courses in telephonic practices are at the disposal of everyone. Students advance as their abilities mature. No cliques of office politics hamper promotion. So after three years Mr. Gifford became Chief Statistician for the parent corporation, the job he held until 1916, when he went into War work. He became Supervising Director of the Committee on Industrial Preparedness of the National Consulting Board, Director of the U. S. Council of National Defense...
...seemed a shame to hamper the abilities of Marie Prevost with a slap-stick story and a crazy continuity. In her own particular field, which is domestic farce, Miss Prevost is without a superior. But what price pug-nose and winsome and sophisticated smile in a steam launch beset by gangsters? Mr. Kenneth Harlan, her out-of-movie husband, saw her through most solicitously. Otherwise she was in very bad company...
...reservations adopted by the Senate ought not to hamper the Court, and they ought not to hamper America. It is to be hoped that other countries will agree to them. They are such as to detract from the encouragement which the United States might have given to other countries in their support of the Court, but they are not such as to make it impossible for other countries to accept...
...defense man for the Tigers will be unable to start tonight. The big man of the Nassau team suffered a severely wrenched ankle when he collided with a Queens College forward in last weeks game. His injury has necessitated switching Captain Wilkinson from wing to defense and will materially hamper the defenders...
Thomas N. Dysart, President of the Association, scored the "blue-sky" laws, which attempt to save the ignorant stock buyer from the clutches of unscrupulous dealers. He said that in actual practice these laws, by complicating sales, hamper the flotation of high-grade stocks...