Word: harm
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mentally unbalanced, the hysteric and the pregnant often develop. Like magpies (Pica is Latin for magpie), they eat all things they encounter. Dr. Fuchs' patient, a man, has swallowed needles, nails, knife blades, spoons, a screwdriver handle, a beer seidel handle, coins, matches, all with no apparent harm. Once he drank sulphuric acid, another time lysol. He is allowed no clothes with buttons. Last week he discovered a new source of false food, his fellow inmates. He would pounce upon an unwary victim, trip him up and, snarling, chew off every button, every fastening. Replete, he would release...
...economic maladjustment is that "we have turned out crowds of American-educated natives wanting American luxuries in a land unable to support them. . . . It is like putting a Rolls-Royce body on a Ford chassis. . . . We are doing the islands more harm than good. . . . They are doing us more harm than good. They are too poor to be an important market for our manufactured goods. . . . With the Philippines we are in a weaker military position than we should be without them. Our naval forces in the Asiatic waters could be swept off the seas by the Japanese. . . . Our military forces...
...technically impure is the air man breathes. Always in the atmosphere are bits of rock, vegetable fibre, litter, salt (over oceans), sulphuric acid (from soft coal chimneys and volcanoes), nitric acid (from lightning), meteoritic ash. The bronchial tubes get rid of most of such debris with almost no harm to the body...
...education, there is reason to doubt that we shall ever want to wipe them out. American democracy seems to have established it as a fundamental principle that the rights of any minority shall be respected so long as the exercise of these rights does not do serious and demonstrable harm to the interests of the majority