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...sides, convinced they are right, have refused to capitulate. The transit company meanwhile has suffered abortive losses. Until last week the situation looked like a question of survival of the fittest. Then civil authorities discovered a little used 1921 statute which prohibits "conspiracy, combination or agreement to interfere or hinder business." A Montgomery grand jury promptly delivered 100 odd indictments, all for Negroes and including 24 clergymen...
...that if one knew what went on on the surface of the brain, one would know what went on underneath. Before long there was a little chart dividing the brain into 37 faculties, each doing its little bit to help a man on his path to perfection-or to hinder him (as in the Bump of Destructiveness). By midcentury, in the U.S. and Britain, phrenologists were as prevalent as dandruff...
...addition, Emerson emphasized that "science courses beyond the premed requirements will neither help nor hinder a student's chances of admission to medical school...
Perceiving that Adenauer was getting only the faintest support from his own side, Ollenhauer got bolder and bolder. Even to make a start on rearmament would hinder the possibility of a settlement at Geneva, said Ollenhauer. Der Alte was visibly angry when he followed Ollenhauer to the speaker's stand. "I had hoped," said he, "to discuss this problem with the Social Democratic faction in a democratic fashion. I have been disappointed...
...With a balmy spring breeze to hinder him in the stretch and a jivey Texas Longhorn band to egg him along, Kansan Wes Santee ran his first outdoor mile of the season at the Texas relays, broke his own American record by one-tenth of a second, edged up within a stride of the four-minute mile. His time...