Word: hamper
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Said the British Medical Association: "Our position is that, while not in the least desiring to hamper the Bishop of Southwark and those who will meet with him, we think the time has not yet arrived when we can speak authoritatively on behalf of the profession generally on the question of spiritual healing...
...Hearst fights without any scruples to hamper him. He will say anything and do anything to win. There are no rules of the game for Mr. Hearst. There is no code of honor. Truth is of no importance to him. The only reason he did not make the campaign even dirtier than it was is that he did not dare face the reprisal which Senator Walker could have inflicted. Not fairness, not courtesy, not truth, restrained him, but the fear of what Smith and Walker could have done if they too had gone the limit...
Evolution. Attempts to hamper or prohibit the teaching of evolution were condemned in a resolution. "Any restriction on the proper study of scientific fact in regularly established scientific institutions is inimical to the progress of science and the public welfare. . . . A study of the development of mankind, ethnologically, embryologically and anthropologically, is fundamental to the proper comprehension of scientific medicine...
...College publication takes to its bosom the woes of the undergraduate "whose desire for knowledge is distorted by restrictions, and sicklied o'er by contact with the chill, thus must thou do! Ambition burns, but it is shut within a hamper, with the Faculty and the System sitting upon the lid. The tyrants...
This import, by withdrawing the cheap copper imported from South America from the domestic markets, would favor home production at high operating costs. Yet it would also hamper the prosperity of many U. S. companies, like Anaconda, which have provided themselves with cheap foreign sources of supply. On the other hand, certain high-grade U. S. copper mines, like Kennecott in Alaska, would make astonishing profits...