Word: impairing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...whole idea is to try and clear up the age-old question as to whether strenuous athletics will impair the heart...
...American Newspaper Guild. The six drew in their friends, organized the American Press Society, "free to foster the economic welfare of its members by methods which would not tend to reduce newspaper salaries to minimum standards or lead to strikes or other coercive and violent measures tending to impair the reputation and dignity of journalism as a profession." The Society would ''not commit itself ... to any other cause or movement...
...German Government," read the official text, "is ready, just as are the British & French Governments, to grant assistance to Belgium in case she should become the object of aggression or invasion. ... It confirms its determination under no circumstances to impair such inviolability & integrity and at all times to respect Belgian territory except, of course, in case of an armed conflict . . . in which Belgium should participate in military action directed against Germany...
Sportswriters' hearts missed a beat when Son Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, after inheriting the family stable in 1930, intimated that he was less interested in racing than in playing polo. In those Depression days a Wall Street delegation actually beseeched him not to impair public confidence by giving up the country's No. 1 stable, an act which would have looked like economy in high places. Sentiment and enthusiasm for a horse named Equipoise finally determined his application to the Jockey Club for permission to race under his father's colors, "Light-blue jacket, brown...
...against abuses, Walter Lippmann looks for social progress, "the enlargement of the middle class as against the poor and the rich." To him this is not a pious hope but a sober expectation, for he concludes that the economic law which Lenin, Hitler and Mussolini try to attack and impair will compel men to rediscover and to re-establish the essential principles of a liberal society . . . the renascence of liberalism may be regarded as assured...