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...around and can't decide whether they want a sea-going or two black-and-tans and a large milk. And then they take their own time eating and when I come to take the dishes they aren't finished yet, and they hang on to the plates and hinder my work. And when they've finally paid their bill, they think they'll have another milk and a piece of cake, and a newspaper and a cigarette. You can't tell me that the boys get indigestion from eating too fast...
Newspapers Hinder Air Progress...
...where most of the people live and die in the same locality their lives are much more likely to become intimately connected and bound up with each other than in the United States where the inhabitants are of a distinctly roving nature. The racial differences in this country also hinder the development of a friendly and cooperative feeling in a community...
...apply for accommodations in the new dormitories across the river, have provoked considerable discussion among members of the University. For fear has been voiced that this is but another expression of the tendency to deploy members of the junior and senior class into quarters so mutually remote as to hinder the proper and necessary community experience of less scattered apartments...
...Chamber again rang with Fascist cheers. Time after time the deputies rose to their feet, stamped, exulted, wept. "Evviva Italia!" they bellowed, "Evviva Fascismo! E v v i v a ! Evviva!! Evviva MUSSOLINI!!!" High atop the Tribune, the Duce of Fascismo flayed the efforts of pan-German propagandists to hinder his Italianization of the pre-War Alto Adige, or South-Austrian Tyrol, which was ceded to Italy at the Peace Conference...