Word: impair
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Libraries may be million dollar libraries but unless they are habitable they fail in their purpose. Widener is a superb monument, and it is unfortunate that details which might be corrected should render it imperfect. The appearance of the building has been criticized but that does not impair its undoubted efficiency: the present ethereal conditions, however, do. So in addition to sweetness and light, let there...
...This selective practice tends to impair the student's sense of unity not only in his grasp of the author studied but in his own subsequent writing...
...bootlegger sentenced by Judge English to four months in jail paid Mr. Thomas $2,500. Soon Judge English vacated the sentence be cause jail might impair the bootlegger's health. Said Congressman Stobbs of Mass.: "$2,500 in my part of the country is a fairly good fee in a liquor case." Furthermore, Attorney Thomas did not even appear in court...
...position taken by the Harvard Advisory Committee. Charges of professionalism have been made against college men who play on hotel baseball teams, or are active in the game as camp counselors, or give athletic instruction in some other form. The Harvard position is that such participation does not impair their amateur standing...
Furthermore, producers of receiving equipment surpassed even the surprising demand last winter, and piled up this spring large inventories. Finally, the dull and uninspiring flood of stuff poured out on the air by many stations last season threatened permanently to impair interest in radio concerts; here, too, it is now felt that mistakes of the past will not be allowed to recur in the future, at least to the same extent...