Word: hindering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...erroneous information in some instances." He said that the reviews attempted to cram tremendous amounts of information into short periods of time and that this could not be done successfully in a subject such as music. "Reviews of this type," Yellin declared, "are usually stupid lists of generalizations which hinder, rather than help, students...
...against the Montgomery bus company (TIME, Jan. 16 et seq.}. King was the first of 90 defendants (including 24 ministers) to be tried under an Alabama law (enacted in 1921 as an antilabor measure) making it a misdemeanor to conspire "without a just cause or legal excuse" to hinder any company in its conduct of business...
...sides, convinced they are right, have refused to capitulate. The transit company meanwhile has suffered abortive losses. Until last week the situation looked like a question of survival of the fittest. Then civil authorities discovered a little used 1921 statute which prohibits "conspiracy, combination or agreement to interfere or hinder business." A Montgomery grand jury promptly delivered 100 odd indictments, all for Negroes and including 24 clergymen...
...that if one knew what went on on the surface of the brain, one would know what went on underneath. Before long there was a little chart dividing the brain into 37 faculties, each doing its little bit to help a man on his path to perfection-or to hinder him (as in the Bump of Destructiveness). By midcentury, in the U.S. and Britain, phrenologists were as prevalent as dandruff...
...addition, Emerson emphasized that "science courses beyond the premed requirements will neither help nor hinder a student's chances of admission to medical school...