Word: hampered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...produce overnight perceptible fresh green shoots from rose bushes dug out of frozen ground in midwinter. Kept indoors on the ether diet, they grow and bloom weeks ahead of the usual flowering time. Still more miraculous, they are found to be immune to all the ordinary plant diseases that hamper indoor rose culture. A very small quantity of ether does the trick-about a tablespoonful in an air-tight chamber containing 27 cubic feet, or a cubic centimeter injected into the stem. The method is most successful with woody plants like the rose or lilac. All the latent buds...
...masses of History 1. Professor R. B. Merriman '96 expressed the fear that it might be impossible to conduct so large a course effectively. Not only the difficulty in lecturing to the galleries, but also crowded sections and insufficient reference books for so large a number might hamper the work of the course...
...said of a Roman conqueror: "He makes solitude and calls it-peace. "Mussolini creates silence and calls it consent. The Cabinet forbade the publication of "news of a false or biased character calculated to hamper the Government in its diplomatic relations or damage national credit at home or abroad; articles, headlines or illustrations calculated to excite class hatred or affect discipline in public services, or favor the interests of foreigners, as against Italians, or likely to give offense to the fatherland, the King, the Pope, religious institutions and the powers of the State or friendly Powers...
...radio amplifier seemed to hamper the President, and he was much more at home in little extempore speeches in which he did not have to remain stationary before an instrument...
...action of Chicago is merely a continuation of the American theory of government, by which Church, and state have always been separated. Tradition or bigotry must not hamper the selection. For any man, if he be unscrupulous enough, can change his affiliations in order to satisfy the requirements, and only men of the highest calibre are barred by arbitrary rules. Chicago's president should not necessarily be a Baptist, nor Columbia's necessarily an Episcopalian. Only in small institutions such as Goucher College, does the President of the Board of Trustees resign because the President of the College refuses...