Word: hindered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...while, springs straight from this frontier prejudice. He who went abroad became hated both as a lost unit in a population which must be made ever larger, and also as a critic, albeit even a silent one, who might 'give the place a bad name' and hinder others from coming...
...service of a law school lies in seeding the ranks of active lawyers with men of high calibre. The quality of judicial administration depends essentially upon individuals, upon the judges and lawyers. Large numbers of mediocre or incapable lawyers, even though honest, without the guidance of intelligent leaders inevitably hinder rather than further the aims of justice. In setting a high standard for itself and its graduates, a law school sets a high standard for all who practice the profession...
...Every fall in timber prices will affect Russia's trade balance and hinder the realization of the Five-Year Plan...
...Alexandra not been a proletarian in good standing, had she wrecked the car as an act of sabotage to hinder the success of the Five Year Plan, she would either have been shot or exiled to a Siberian lumber camp. Because she was a true proletarian, had killed one and injured six only in a girlish madcap mood, she got off with 18 months in jail. She did not get off without a scolding. Editorialized a Moscow newspaper...
...that race prejudice ("whatever that may be") should have no standing in courts where Negroes enjoy equal privileges with whites. Said he: "The courts ought not increase the difficulties [of law enforcement] by magnifying theoretical possibilities. It is their province to deal with matters actual and material . . . not to hinder order by excessive theorizing of what in practice is not really important...