Word: thwart
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This purely mechanical feature may tend to thwart one of the fundamental purposes of the House Plan; it is apt to preclude any real possibility of a cross-section of University life...
...never had 'terrible headaches.'. . . I never knew him to suffer from 'ghastly dyspepsia' or any other kind. I have known him to be bored when reading stuff like Professor Pitkin's. . . . What heartburns he suffered were for humanity and because of the attempts to thwart his ideal of world peace. . . . It is true that he had bad eyesight, but he could still envisage the horrors of war, the sufferings of humanity and the way to free the world of them...
Although there are insufficient flyers in the U. S. to man the planes produced, and although this insufficiency has begun to thwart sales, the Department of Commerce has all along fought scamp training schools. Obvious reason: poorly trained pilots endanger life and property, in the air, on the ground. Last week, Assistant Secretary William Patterson MacCracken approved a set of regulations stiffening the requirements for Government licenses, which now stand as follows: For Private License. On the ground, 5 hrs. study of air commerce regulations, 10 hrs. of aviation engine study, 10 hrs. of airplane study (rigging, maintenance, repair...
...lawyer for Col. Stewart, Mr. Hogan replied to Mr. Aldrich's announcement of Rockefeller proxies with a sophistry. Said he: "If, therefore, Mr. Rockefeller's associates should succeed, it will mean that numerical strength in shares will thwart the wishes of the overwhelming majority of stockholders...
...join when they showed lack of initiative. But last week, Mrs. Albert H. Vestal, wife of the Indiana Representative, offered an amendment to the club's constitution which, if passed at a general meeting on Feb. 6, will make it possible for the club's members to thwart the election of women whose right to belong has hitherto been unquestioned. The amendment provides that the candidate must be indorsed by one or more members from her home state, must be approved by an Executive Committee of officers...