Word: harm
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...passing the charter applications, the Council set a precedent for recognizing nascent political groups. Members agreed that there would probably be a large number of organizations springing up between now and the national elections next year, and most members saw no harm in approving them so long as their aims do not overlap...
...game suggest the whole story of the damage done. Men sometimes had to learn new plays, offenses had to be changed, and some players were compelled even to switch into totally unfamiliar positions--all to the undoing of many precious weeks of spring and fall training. But the greatest harm has come from lack of contact work...
Writing for the screen, Author James Hilton once remarked, could do a man no harm. It might, he said, actually be a good thing, in keeping him keenly alive to story values. Novelist Hilton has spent the best part of a dozen years in Hollywood since Lost Horizon and Goodbye, Mr. Chips brought him fame and passage from England. Nothing So Strange (the title derives from Daniel Webster: "There is nothing so powerful as truth-and often nothing so strange") is certainly alive to story values-in the movie sense-besides being the Literary Guild selection for November...
...nation where charity is Big Business, where community-chest drives and Red Cross campaigns are splendidly supported, understood that free-&-easy charity sometimes does more harm than good. The U.S. was prepared to help Western Europe, but on a businesslike basis. A lot of U.S. money and goods had already been poured into Europe-more than $8.6 billion since war's end. The question was: How much good had it done? From now on Americans were not financing any charitable pig-in-a-poke. There was not going to be any WPA in Europe...
...labor leaders would admit, privately, that as long as the U.S. has prosperity-uneasy as it might be-the Taft-Hartley Law would work few hardships on labor. But for tactical reasons, and because it feared that the combination of the law and a depression might do them mortal harm, both the left and the right of organized labor stood solidly against...