Word: impairment
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...beating he would have to take around the head and eyes would impair him for life. I think I was lucky to have had the accident that warned me in time. And that is why you will never see me back in the ring again...
...Glen Alden Coal Co. of Buffalo and Rochester, N. Y., has made the last wash a blueing process. The idea: to make coal attractive, to give it advertising appeal under the trade name of "Blue Diamond." The dyeing process costs only three or four cents a ton, does not impair the heating power of coal...
...heart attack in 1923 left him, his friends thought, less equable of temper than before. Perhaps this contributed to his defeat for the Speakership in 1925. Failing health did not, however, impair his capacity for work. He continued at the head of the Appropriations Committee, devoting even his recesses to study...
...have chosen a new one fit to rank "among the greatest," last week, would probably have meant returning to the Woolsack the brilliant Earl of Birkenhead, who sat thereon during 1919-22, but is now Secretary of State for India. Patently Lord Birkenhead does not want to impair his chances of perhaps someday becoming Prime Minister by again withdrawing from the hot arena of politics to the lofty precincts of the Lord High Chancellor. Therefore, last week, His Majesty was "advised" by the Baldwin Cabinet to call to the Lord High Chancellorship another "sound lawyer," Attorney General Sir Douglas McGarel...
Late in June cartoonists and feature writers of metropolitan newspapers enjoy a field day at the expense of the hosts of bearers of diplomas which step forth into the world. Such levity is inevitable, but it should not, and it does not, impair the delirium of the last week of a college career. It is the Seniors hour, and none should approach to mar the glory whose memory will remain ever bright...