Word: harm
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...particular instance from the entire fabric of the wage question, and magnifying it to a position of paramount importance; whether the questionable publicity given to this particular part, dwarfing the whole out of all proportion, has, in an ultimate analysis, done any good. It is impossible to minimize the harm...
...originally was a Jlittle fetish "even by French mothers, sisters or sweethearts to French Poilus. They usually were worn around the neck, in the belief that, while carried no harm would come to the soldier, just as American soldiers believed that while wearing Paris garters no metal could touch them...
...Last week the Chicago Tribune published a loud advertisement: "Come on, Business, let's go. . . . America needs leadership. The public looks to Business for it. The politicians in Washington are only a crowd of ranting actors. They cannot do the country any real harm." In Washington Assistant Secretary of Commerce Julius Klein predicted an eleven-billion-dollar construction program for 1930, hailed "the dawn of a new day." President Hoover signed a Bill for the U. S. to spend $375,000,000 on new roads in the next three years, to give 100,000 men jobs...
...hold "going native" has no scientific basis. As a physician, as one who has "gone," as a practical businessman who lived for many years in a community where every white man had a pitch black Congo woman, Dr. Puleston has stated that such a relation did not appear to harm either health or mentality. Whether it harmed morals he considers a mere emotional question of opinion...
...American short-story . . . supplies the good citizen with a half hour of pleasant amusement and diversion. The stories are tripe: the editors know it, the authors know it; and, if the public is in ignorance of the fact, I can't see what harm that does...