Word: impair
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...social service activities, mark a definite attempt to effect periodical examination of all the children in the care of the Boston settlement houses. It is explained that the immediate need for such supervision arises from the danger of permitting physically deficient children to engage in athletics which might permanently impair their health. It is to combat this danger, arising from the ignorance of parents under a regulation which refuses them access to the physical reports of the public schools, that these students of the medical and dental schools will be employed...
...literature, or in any one department of learning, the idea is wholly acceptable, but as a contest to ascertain the relative amounts of culture in one university and another, it is meaningless. It is to be hoped that the inactivity forced on the wits this season will not seriously impair their cerebral accomplishments so that we may look forward to another illuminating and amusing showdown in the future. Cornell...
Last week Black, Starr & Frost and its near neighbor, the Gorham store (not the Gorham manufacturing concern) were working out details of a merger, which obviously could not impair the traditions of either. Alfred & Co. are the bankers...
...wisdom of any step but the construction of steel stands. Concrete seats built now would represent a waste when the present Stadium shall be abandoned. As much room may be found in a set of steel stands closing the open end of the Stadium which will not impair the usefulness of the track and may be removed at will...
Naturally the compromise just sketched in principle involves at every turn thorny factual problems which will have to be threshed out. For one thing the U. S. State Department may impair the whole arrangement by sternly advising U. S. financiers not to absorb the German bonds. For another thing Great Britain is known to be tolerably well pleased by the Reparations status quo; and Chancellor Churchill in particular has displayed reluctance to readjust his precariously balanced budget on the basis of a new arrangement with Germany...