Word: hindered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Churches (see col. 2). Last week in Richmond. Va., 5,000 "messengers" (delegates) to the Southern Baptist Convention representing 5,000,000 Baptists in 18 States, applauded two frank statements of the Baptist position on unity. A committee thumbed down "any federation, council or what not that would hinder us in the full and free preaching of the whole counsel of God." In the opening sermon, to which Baptists annually look forward as representing the very best tradition of Southern preaching, Dr. John Richard Sampey, retiring president, said: "An intelligent and convinced Baptist, with the New Testament in his hand...
...restrictions. We often echo the lament of Ecclesiastes, but it is only over-much study that is a weariness of the flesh. It is as true today as when Cicero said it that books adorn us in prosperity, comfort us in adversity, delight us at home and do not hinder us abroad. Time discards the spawn of the press on the gossip of the hour, and the treasures remain. The field of learning widens but work becomes specialized and subdivided, and each scholar may know his part. All are under obligation to the munificence of past generations...
Harvard teams have uniformly opposed the measure in previous encounters on the grounds that such an amendment would rather cause a further aggravation of industrial disputes and would hinder the orderly development of collective bargaining in this country...
...irresponsible students. A thoughtless attack, a distortion of fact that may seem funny at the time, a vicious opinion purporting to state college sentiment, these are all within the power of college editors, and these are the things that can cut short a career, besmirch a character or hinder the work of an endowed institution...
...public debate on the referendum has brought to light two important facts. It has revealed the surprising number of people who believe that nothing should be done to hinder American participation in an overseas war, and it has shown the popularity of the strange belief that "a revitalized American foreign policy" for peace (to quote from your editorial) needs the sanction of a nation ready to go to war at the drop of a hat. Robert S. Brainerd...