Word: hindered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...weapons against the saddest paraders Manila had ever seen. Chanting "Give us Liberty or Give us Death," flaunting the same cry on placards, 235 lepers who are normally cooped up in Manila's San Lazaro Hospital marched through the city's streets, with no one daring to hinder them...
...sharp, uncompromising line can be drawn between so-called "general education" and graduate work. There will always be students of university calibre, even according to President Hutchins' standards, who need drilling on elementary work. A total divorce of the two types of institutions of higher learning would greatly hinder, as mass production always will, any possible attention to individual needs. The direct result could only be to retard that "single-minded devotion to the advancement of knowledge" which President Hutchins lauds so highly...
...they are invited to help instead of hinder the corps. They fraternize with the players, sit on the bench and handle the water bottles and drinking cups, engage in friendly conversation with the Harvard performers...
...principle of taxation deliberately applied in order to help, rather than hinder, the natural workings of the capitalistic system; to lessen, rather than increase, the growing rigidities, would appear to be essential if that system is to survive. As compared with Soak-the-Investor taxation, and the rigidities of monopoly, price fixing, wage fixing, and output fixing of the N.R.A., the Wagner Bill, and the A.A.A., this new principle looks like something straight from the angels. It is extremely sad that Roosevelt should again have betrayed what promised to be a great idea by the stupidity with which he worked...
...latter is played rather poorly by Dudley Digges, who is the enemy of the whole county because his fences hinder the hounds. Spring Byington as Barrymore's wife and Charley Grapewin as a crony give their usual performances. The whole picture drags considerably, but is more than endurable...