Crossword-Solution: IMPASSES 8 letters, 10 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

But why sever his connection with a leading firm? Why not plead ill-health, nervous breakdown, those doctor's orders which have opened a way of escape from impasses of the mind as well as of the body? An archaeologic tour in Spain, a yachting cruise in the Mediterranean, a winter in Egypt--all these things would be to Westray's taste; the blameless herb nepenthe might anywhere be found growing by the wayside.

But the streets in which there are no public sewers,--including those private streets, _impasses_, and _cités_ which the municipality considers as the property of individuals, and for which it provides neither policemen nor street-cleaners,--and those buildings in which this connection has not been made, still furnish occupation for those nocturnal vehicles the mere thought of which drives the careful citizen to close his windows.

And the Pittsburg district, with its various narrow _impasses_ made by broad rivers and sharp-sided mountains, is a railroad abomination--a fearfully congested traffic gateway which, by reason of those selfsame rivers and mountains, is hardly capable of radical enlargement, even at great cost.

This has given rise to the crises, impasses, and senseless competition between nations, and to the impoverishment of defenceless individuals.