Word: thwarts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...course of the romance was struck when Mrs. Stull heard that marriages in Manhattan required three days' notice. Miserably she fretted. "These laws! What is even a love expert like me going to do against such man-made barriers? Love is beautiful. Love is spontaneous. Why must man thwart it?" Not long to be thwarted was Mrs. Stull herself, who took advantage of the hitch to explain her mission: "I am the love fixer. I make men and women happy. My theory is that every Jill has her Jack." By way of proving her theory she has brought...
There are many features in the present advisorial regime which thwart its efficacy and limit the scope of its beneficial activity. Chosen indiscriminately from the Faculty, changed at frequent intervals, receiving no extra remuneration or alleviation of University duties for their advisorial work, the majority of the advisors have neither the qualifications nor the interest which are essential if there is to be effective guidance. Not only are too many Freshmen assigned to the same man, but there is no attempt to assign the newcomers interested in some particular subject to an advisor who is connected with that field...
Staggered by the losses which American foreign trade has suffered during his administration, President Roosevelt in a message to the National Foreign Trade Convention, announced his sincere intention to seek unified action in breaking down the artificial tariff barriers which now thwart the healthy exchange of commodities. Any successful rehabilitation of American commerce must consider the South American market, a rich market long closed to American industry by the enterprize of German and British merchants and the stupidity of Washington diplomacy...
Deep down in his heart many a pious U. S. farmer firmly believes that the great Drought of 1934 was the work of God, angry at Tugwellian efforts to thwart His bounty. Yet the same God has so far failed to register His displeasure with another program for the willful destruction of natural wealth which, for sheer grandeur in scope and execution, dwarfs anything ever attempted in the U. S. or elsewhere. In three years Brazil's Departamento Nacional do Café has fired, made into fuel briquets or dumped into the deep blue sea 31,500,000 bags...
Sturdy peasants mounted guard all night over a simple coffin which had arrived by truck. Officially the Government of dictatorial King Alexander frowns on Sarajevo's bland assassinophilia, but His Majesty's police know better than to try 'to thwart such resolute citizens. After the all-night vigil, peasants put the coffin on a cart, decked it with flowers. On either side of the road brawny youths and robust girls of Sarajevo's so-called "athletic associations" mounted vigorous guard. Slowly the cart creaked to Sarajevo's cemetery and there proud gravediggers buried the bones of the archconspirator who instigated...