Word: harm
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Many an expert sociologist agrees with President Namm that the vast publicity given to employment-and-charity drives has done more harm than good. Intentions, of course, were to do good.-ED. Payment to Soldiers Sirs...
Obviously, the elections were carelessly and inefficiently handled. The Senior elections are the only ones in which any interest is shown, according to statistics. If, as the committee believes, the same men would be chosen in a second election, there would be no harm done and the winners can feel that they hold their offices as the accredited representatives of the class. There is no alternative...
...stock, it began to whirl through a period of expansion. Since May 1929 it has lost one-fourth of its deposits; its shares have tumbled from $91 to $13. Recently it has been understood that officials in Washington have been closely watching its affairs, perhaps anxious that no harm should befall a Manhattan bank whose name sounds so significant. While Bank of the United States deposits were dropping 25%, Manufacturers Trust's deposits slumped 15%. In Manufacturers Trust, Goldman Sachs Trading was likewise a dominant stockholder. Obviously complicated were the problems of determining the value of all four...
...complimentary to say that a book is good if it can be read by anyone and do no harm, no better tribute could be paid this work. Certainly not all readers would acquire equal benefit from it; certainly the mellow vein of understanding, the whimsical, delicate irony will be lost on many. But there are no startling extremes to lead a reader away from the genuine excellence of the work as a whole...
...American education. But the idle, or uninterested student will suffer if the recommendations are carried out. The slow, hard-working student, and the quick, expansive student will profit. The idle and the uninterested students are unproductive anyway; therefore the neglect will raise the standards, and do no great harm to them or to anyone else...