Word: harm
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Regarding the Carlsberg Breweries, it might interest you to know that they have up to recently used since 1886 as a trademark the Swastika, later adopted by Hitler, and hence doing the Danish beer so much harm that the brewery had to discontinue using...
...chase and beat up several pickets whom they caught. Several others were rescued and released by the well-organized deputies. Taken into "protective custody" was Fred Mayberry, leader of the pickets who was seated in the car of the police chief so no one would do him harm. Cars abandoned by the pickets were smashed up and shoved into the river by volunteer vigilantes. Such was the first reopening of a strike-closed steel plant...
...lane roadway and two passenger walks over the water, 220 ft. More intriguing than all these statistics are the allowances for the great stresses which the bridge may meet. In case a hurricane sweeps in from the sea, it can swing 21 ft. out of line without harm. When the sun expands the steel, the towers will lean several feet, the two 36½-in. cables will lengthen 16 ft. Greatest stress of all that the bridge may have to meet is an earthquake. Only six miles away and parallel to the Golden Gate Bridge is the San Andreas Fault...
Engineer Strauss & staff declare that the bridge could stand a 'quake twice as bad as the 1906 one, plus a hurricane, without harm. But there are others who claim differently. Chief of these is Dr. Bailey Willis, an 80-year-old Stanford geology professor with a handsome white beard. Two years ago a diver, working on the preliminary survey for the Bridge's great south pier 1,000 ft. from shore came up to declare that the rock was "as soft as plum pudding." Dr. Willis devoted months to proving that the rock on which the pier would...
...family. After a year at V. M. I. he finished college at the University of Texas, took three years of law in one and was admitted to the bar at 20. At 24 he was president of the San Antonio Bar Association. His War record did him no harm with future voters. As a lieutenant in the Argonne he was severely wounded, twice decorated. He returned from the War a rabid antimilitarist. When he went into politics he soon became known as a forceful speaker of the old knock-'em-down-&- drag-'em-out school. Since those days...