Word: harm
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Unsympathetic. Nor were Comrade Molotov's statements on general policy lost on his hearers. He put to rest any thought that the Soviet Union was thinking of lining up with Germany, although he saw no harm in continuing German-Russian trade relations. The Soviet Union, the Commissar said, "can under no circumstances be suspected of any sympathy whatsoever for aggressors...
...berg season, patrol the danger area in alternate shifts, report every berg sighted, keep big ones under constant surveillance. They pay little attention, however, to ice fragments less than 100 feet long, for these melt away in a day or less. At night the cutters simply drift, so no harm is done if they bump a berg. Since the Ice Patrol was started, not a single ship has repeated the Titanic's smash...
Britain engaged in terrorizing refugees and, with threats of harm to relatives in Germany, coercing German-born servants in garrison centres to ferret out scraps of military information. One of the duties of these "journalists" is supposed to be to supply Berlin with the names, characteristics and political opinions of every German resident in Great Britain...
...standard Ross nor Rosten. As one character says: "It's like a cross between Graustark and the Arabian Nights, written by E. Phillips Oppenheim." Authors McCutcheon, Scheherazade, Oppenheim might object, but to most readers Dateline: Europe will seem like a versatile slip which can do Author Rosten no harm, if not repeated...
There are types of scholarship which suffer no harm from being confined in an very tower which is furnished only with books or laboratory apparatus; there are others which are enriched by broad human sympathies and experience. Although a university lives within walls as a world apart, there must be perpetual commerce with the world outside in order that the university may both enlighten and be nourished by the civilization of its time and place...