Word: harm
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Claim defenders of the Old American Game: 1) No one has ever been killed at water polo. 2) There have never been serious injuries. 3) The players do not think it is too rough; complaints come from faculty members, medical advisers. 4) There is no harm in it if played strictly according to the rules. 5) "Accidental" blows lose much of their force under water...
Item: H. R. H. declared: "There is no harm in playing cards for money in itself. . . . Gambling, as I understand the word, is hateful...
Before the War a comparatively small number of low-grade Egyptians smoked hashish and opium, with little appreciable social harm. At the War's end a Greek chemist introduced cocaine to high Egyptian society. The middle classes took up the fad. Then came heroin. Now, it is estimated, one out of 28 Egyptians is a dope addict, and one out of 56 dazzles himself with heroin...
Chancellor Snowden did not help matters. Said he acidly of the Liberal measure: "We have already got about 70 committees. One more will do no good and no harm! Such little economies as committees may suggest don't count. It is only on policy that large savings can be made. Let the House of Commons face that...
Only the last of Mr. Lang's suggestions appealed to his colleagues. They know that Australia is in a dreadful financial mess, but they are not ready yet for tur nip money. On the other hand they could see no harm in asking of John Bull the same generous terms he received from Uncle Sam. Later in the week Laborite James Henry Scullin, Prime Minister of all Australia, queried London...