Word: hinder
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What are our people thinking of in opposing the selective draft as a means of an immediate enlargement of our armed forces? . . . To preach "peace" now, to hinder in any way a sensible, reasonable, immediate enlargement of our forces, reveals downright ignorance, selfishness, cowardice or duplicity...
...soon rivaled Socialist Morrison with a ringing radio declaration: "Machine tools and instruments of production are now more valuable than gold. . . . I want another [sixth] column in Britain-a National Service Column resolved to win, and to win quickly! . . . It will deal drastically with anyone who seeks to hinder us in our crusade...
Students will not have to make special attachments to the heating pipes to receive with ordinary sets. However, a ground on the pipes may hinder reception, whereas an aerial attachment to the radiators might improve the reception considerably...
...that he had inherited his father's passionate interest in "biology," he was taken to Uyeno Park Zoo one day last autumn. There he observed that the hippopotamus, unlike his toy hippo at home, was supplied with a tail; also (there being no one with the audacity to hinder his demi-divine will) he fed the sheep to satiety on small pieces of paper...