Word: hamperfuls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There still remain vestiges of past rowing history which may hamper the new coach. It is to be hoped that he will be given free reign to carry out his policies as he sees fit. He should have complete power to name his own assistants and to regulate and direct coaching of all rowing at Harvard from the freshman dormitory crews right up to the first university eight. From all reports, Mr. Whiteside is the type of man to be entrusted with a share in Harvard's crew destinies not only to the extent of turning out winning combinations...
...times witty farce involving the efforts of a mother to keep a husband, from whom she is separated, from stealing his son. Lee (4 in May) is younger and funnier than Jackie Coogan was when he made The Kid with Charles Chaplin. Best shot: Sonny Boy in the clothes-hamper...
...University of Michigan, and, overtopping them all in generosity, that of eleven million dollars to Harvard University to establish the House Plan. Evidently such restrictive stipulations may be considered by some, as President Little in the case of the stipulated donation to the University of Michigan, unnecessarily to hamper the authorities in attaining the general objective with the best possible results. It is true that a donor's foresight is never quite equal to contemporary professional judgment in achieving a desired project, and may sometimes unduly limit such an achievement. Whatever may be the result of this definitely stipulated gift...
...power of a bad gambler, agrees for his sake to put catnip in the champion's water-bottle so that the gambler may be assured in advance who will win the big fight. The audience, on the other hand, knows that no catnip or other poison can hamper Champ Jack Dillon in the performance of his art. The last scene shows the fight itself. Dempsey throws his hands around more wildly than he does in an off-stage ring but there are moments when he does not pull his punches. After his quiet, embarrassed performance in drawing-room...
There exist other foreign monopolies of natural products which hamper where they do not constrain U. S. business?British rubber, French-German potash, Chilean nitrate and iodine, Japanese camphor, Brazilian coffee...