Word: hindering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Interviewed last week, Joseph Nicholas Weber, the Federation's president, estimated the jobless at 10,000. His Federation will spend as much as $500,000 to warn the public that Culture, as well as the livelihood of musicians, is threatened. He insisted: "We are not trying to hinder the development of any industry...
Undoubtedly, this project Johns Hopkins has adopted has given the graduate students a thorough knowledge of their profession, but their lack of a sound cultural background will seriously hinder them in formulating ideas in the true perspective of actual events. Instead of a step forward, the idea is a compromise between the old method whereby no degree was required, and the present system of demanding a foundation in the arts previous to entering any advanced field...
...States, however, Senatorial campaigns might help or hinder the winning of electoral votes somewhat as follows: In wet Republican Illinois, wet Democrat A. J. Cermak campaigned formidably against Republican Otis F. Glenn. The Cermak insignium was a bottle-opener and the motto: "This is for beer. So is Cermak." So is Smith...
...establishment of the United States Military Academy at West Point was the result of numerous considerations, mainly strategic and topographical. The sudden volte-face here of the Hudson was seized upon by Revolutionary military leaders as the logical place to hinder hostile passage of the river; and the long, tragic interlude of Arnold and Andre, with the failure of the British campaign treacherously supported by them, is interwoven with the importance of this region in the war. The close of the Revolution brought recommendations for the continuance of an army training post here; a Military Academy had been suggested...
Those leaping, shifting, fugitive things called jaywalkers, who twist their way through traffic, will become an extinct species if the rules of the new traffic code just initiated in Boston are successfully executed. These laws are shaped to hinder foot passengers' shuffling off this mortal coil in the midst of traffic and, secondly, to assist steering wheel handlers, whose skill in manipulating their machines is taxed when the appearing-from-no-where body of a pedestrian is suddenly and unexpectedly eyed through the windshield...