Word: impairing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Crown officials granted permission for a large office building to be erected on the Carleton House terrace block overlooking the Mall. Reporters quickly discovered that such a building will impair the view from Buckingham Palace. The Daily Express immediately recalled an interview with Viscount Esher (son-in-law of New York's August Heckscher) in which he said...
...collection includes a volume bound in human skin, with the somewhat ironical title of "Little Poems for Little Folk." A removal of 20 square inches of skin from his back failed to impair the health of its donor, who is still alive and in the best of condition. Also contained in the exhibit are "Galileo," the smallest book printed from movable type, and the "Rubaiyat of Omar Khaiyam," the tiniest volume ever printed. The latter, about half the size of a dime, was produced by a special photo-reducing process; the only other extant copy of it resides...
...spite of the fact, that these measures were presented by those estensibly "friends of Prohibition," it is clear that they will impair the effectiveness of enforcement of the Amendment. As one high official remarked, "It certainly looks as if Congress didn't want the Amendment enforced." In confirmation of this, a survey of present methods of enforcement reveals that in all Federal Courts, and in two-thirds of the State Courts a person cannot be convicted of violation of the Volstead Act unless there is presented actual evidence of purchase; and not mere observation of sale. To secure such evidence...
...effort was made last October to boost the price of crude, but two Standard units refused to follow suit. Now the price is well under October levels. Though such stout proration-ists as President Charles Bismark Ames of American Petroleum Institute insisted that the Supreme Court decision does not impair the power of states to regulate production, most of the industry saw evil days ahead. Governor Sterling reluctantly demobilized his little army, declaring: "Serious trouble is threatened in many quarters. . . . Prospects are that if disorderly production increases at its present rate without State Governmental intervention, it soon will lead...
...April Mr. Young was attempting to prevent Mr. Insull's bank creditors from closing in on him. His desire was to keep the Insull structure solvent because a failure "might impair the credit of utilities everywhere, and when you impair the credit of utilities you impair their buying power from the General Electric...