Word: hinder
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...look like being permanently the paupers of the English-speaking world," the bishop declared. "We need to restrict our population . . . We must preserve the better stocks in the population, and hinder the increase of the worse . . . We need to preserve the good-living, honest, hard-working classes in our people, whether they be rich or poor ... A time is quickly coming when sterilization of the unfit will have to be essential in our social organization...
...Priest denies this. He told the CRIMSON that the Chancery actually "tried to hinder publication by asking him to submit anything he 'was worried about.'" This, he claims, he was glad to do. He said he always submitted his own works, but he felt he was as competent as any other priest to censor his student's articles...
...Holy War." The first opposing witness seemed more apt to help than hinder final passage. Henry Wallace fidgeted and squirmed as he charged that the State Department had kept mum on Russia's offer to end the Berlin blockade for fear it would spoil the treaty's chances. (No one thought to ask him why the Russians took part in such a deal.) Henry Wallace rattled on. The treaty, he cried, was "not an instrument of defense but a military alliance designed for aggression." Furthermore, it was a deal backed by U.S. big business, the Roman Catholic hierarchy...
Would that men like Msgr.-Sheen ... could retire to the Middle Ages, where they belong in spirit! Such clever men serve merely to hinder what harassed modern man really needs: a reinterpretation of the nature of man on the basis of new psychological and philosophical insights. I refer them not only to Freud, but to the efforts of such truly significant men as Albert Schweitzer and José Ortega y Gasset...
...attack on Laski was certainly helped along by the general fusillade against "Harvard, the hotbed of Communism." Under the scattered blasts of the Chicago Tribune and Messrs. Matthews and Philbrick, the Administration has done nothing to hinder the John Reed Club. It has done the right thing; and although University Hallhas done nothing to discourage the group, there has been no postelection political action whatsoever by the group. It's a little hard to see where all those "Reds" are --the ones that are warping the minds of Harvard students, that...