Word: harm
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plane is tiny, looks like a winged canoe built close to the ground, but is sturdily braced against the novice's "pancake" landings. It is of the "pusher" type (a rarity in modern landplanes) with the engine mounted atop the wing and abaft, out of harm's way, and allowing perfect forward visibility...
...asks Chief Travers, "could Constance be guarded from harm? . . . How easy for a desperate criminal to masquerade as a reporter or photographer and await his chance to mutilate or kill a member of the family. . . . There was one obvious solution, and Colonel Lindbergh and Anne Morrow chose to adopt it. Late on Monday, May 27, 1929. a laconic announcement was issued [that they] had been married and had left on their honeymoon. . . . The siege of the Morrow estate [was] lifted. Detectives now were able to guard Constance Morrow efficiently...
...stared at her one day, the rest was inevitable. One night she thought she saw him under her window, ran down to catch him, but he was gone. So she looked for him and got lost in one of the worst quarters of Paris. Though she came to no harm, this escapade ruined her nubility, and she submitted to the family decision that she must marry her cousin Antoine, madly in love with her since the awkward age. Marriage with Antoine was a disappointment to romantic Minne. She took to experimenting with lovers. But they all left her cold...
...back swing. The day is gone when a man's worth is judged by the amount of extracurricular work with which he has tampered. The proper ratio between these two elements of undergraduate life pertains solely to the individual, and in seeking it it would do no harm to bear in mind the remark of Woodrow Wilson to the effect that the side shows should not be allowed to overshadow the big tent...
...achievement by the conference can be reached only by an aroused public opinion. This is partly true, but it is not enough that public opinion be aroused. It is first of all necessary that it should be informed, for an aroused and uninformed public opinion may do infinitely more harm than good...