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Word: hinders (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Several restrictions stand in the way of authorized sale, however, which may hinder the issuing of licenses to the Dining Halls. It is understood that University authorities have applied to the city licensing commission for a permit to sell the beverage, but that to date they have been unable to receive one, because of legal difficulties. City law allows only one license to a single organization...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MAY SERVE BEER IN HOUSES IF LICENSE BOARD PERMITS | 4/14/1933 | See Source »

...will be of no value if the ball is to be moved ten yards in from the sidelines. When questioned as to what effect the new rule would have on Harvard's style of play Casey said, "It would make no difference whatsoever and will probably not aid or hinder any team's playing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SIDELINE RULE HELP TO OFFENSE, CASEY THINKS | 2/15/1933 | See Source »

Next day the Council of the League of Nations sent to Lima the sort of cablegram it itches to send to Tokyo but dares not. Peru was commanded by the Council "to refrain from any intervention by force on Colombian territory and . . . not hinder the Colombian authorities from the exercise of full sovereignty and jurisdiction in territory recognized by treaty to belong to Colombia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERU-COLOMBIA: War of Leticia? | 2/6/1933 | See Source »

...Perfect. . . ." (See front cover) The spirit of the Japanese nation is, by its nature, a thing that must be propagated over the seven seas and extended over the five continents. Anything that may hinder it must be abolished, even by force. ARAKI...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: The Way of the Perfect. . . . | 1/23/1933 | See Source »

...occasion when a man fell to his death outside his office window, he did not bother to open his window and look out. But Artist Bennett finally revolted, finding that "to edit a lady's paper, even a relatively advanced one, is to foster conventionality and hinder progress regularly once a week." As a lesser evil he chose to earn money by writing sensational fiction, with serious work on the side. In 1899 he was able to chalk up, as he did at the end of every year, his grand total of words written-335,340 for that year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Literary Whale | 5/30/1932 | See Source »

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