Word: impair
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...them of taking books from the shelves. The usefulness of a reference library, however well regulated it may be, depends very much on the men who use it. A very few men can, by securing and needlessly holding all the books which are in demand at any time, seriously impair the usefulness of the library. We should hesitate to believe that there are any who do this in deliberate disregard of their fellow-students. But that there are some who are inexcusably careless in this respect there is ample evidence. A moment's thought will surely convince them that...
...wisdom is not the having learned any particular thing, but the result of many knowledge mutually acting upon and modifying each other. Michael Angelo chose for his emblem the figure of an old man in a child's go-cart with the motto, anchor impair,- I am still learning. Titian, dying of the plague at ninety-nine, exclaimed sadly, "My God, must I die now, just as I had learned to paint an eye!" Indeed the word learning, which we use to express a result, does by its very form imply an unfinished and unfinishable process. What the judgment requires...
...number at each club table could be raised from fourteen to eighteen. This increase at the club tables would almost exactly balance the decrease at the general tables. Some club tables already have two extra men, and suffer no inconvenience; that four extra men would destroy, or even seriously impair, the pleasant social relations now existing in the hall seems highly improbable. Certainly, even if there was a small inconvenience occasionally, it would be more than counterbalanced by the larger number of men admitted to the hall. It is a clear case of the greatest good to the greatest number...
...contrary to the theory of our political system: Public Opinion VIII. 104 (Nov., 1889). - (a) Tends to impair local self government. - (b) A radical step toward interference by the general government: N. Am. Rev., 144, 429. (April...
...accomplishes important beneficial results. - (a) It eases the money market. - (b) It does not impair the gold standard: Speech of Mr. Conger, Cong. Record, '90, p.7090...