Word: impair
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...much in this Report that is startling and possibly painful to orthodox believers in traditional cosmology; and yet it cannot be too often emphasized that the readjustment of some of the incidental tenets of our religion to meet the progress of modern science need not, and does not impair the fundamental structure of our faith. The only iconoclastic result of this expedition will be to destroy permanently the influence of those pompous and inaccurate historiasters of the last century who have falsified the sequence and meaning of past events by their lack of scientific method, their reliance on traditional literature...
...matter what the Senate thought about it. As regards the composition of the Senate, the Premier would have the Senators elected (not appointed) for definite periods and with a definite retiring age.* There can be no doubt that such radical legislation, if carried, would not only impair the dignity of that august House (make it a forum of party politics rather than a custodian of national rights and liberties as at present), but would remove a pillar of the Constitution, as well as such hoary Senators as nonagenarian George Casimir Dessaulles, Dean of the Senate, and a most active...
...undergraduate of Colby College wrote an editorial in the Colby Echo that bore reprinting in more than one other undergraduate daily. The title was: Our Most Prevalent Immorality. The thesis was: "If it is immoral to needlessly impair the body's vitality, then lack of sleep is Colby's most prevalent immorality. Students who ought to be firm-nerved, straight-thinking and clear-eyed go through their college course with a perpetual tired feeling, irritable, sluggish-eyed and languid-brained. They sit torpidly through classes and wonder why the professors are so boresome. They slump dismally into a chair...
Cordingley did not don a uniform yesterday, but he is expected to do so today or tomorrow. The coaches await his appearance with some anxiety as to whether his injury will impair his effectiveness as a twirler. If he regains first-class condition, he should be a material help in solving the pitching problem...
...burdens. I would shift $500,000,000 from the shoulders of those least able to bear it and place it where the burden could be better sustained. ... In any bill I write, the principles will be economically sound. I will never do anything to impair the right of property. I am a property owner myself and I believe in respecting that right...