Word: harm
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...smells like geraniums and is a blistering gas, the blisters appear about 15 minutes after the dark brown liquid has touched the victim. If the blisters are broken immediately, the arsenic will not be so likely to seep through the system, and will not do so much harm." The ordinary gas mask, which may be distributed to all civilians, eliminates the gas with ease, but no ordinary clothing will protect the wearer. Oil cloth or especially treated cloth will keep the gas from the body," Major Johnson said...
Since the public is loathe to accept our honest efforts, an attack of this sort, while seeming amusing to sophomoric college pranksters, does real harm to our cause. Serying, or crystal gazing as you would call it, is the world's oldest legitimate science back to the great seer Teiresias and the pharaohs of Egypt. To cite one example to you who doubt our integrity Roger Bacon long ago prophesied the advent of the airplane the automobile and many of the other modern conveniences after he had utilized the "crystal ball...
...TIME does pledge itself 1) to report, as soon as its disclosure will do no harm, any military information that may be temporarily withheld, 2) to have the courage to send its editors to jail rather than connive at the concealment of any significant facts of a non-military nature...
...carry as many as 2,000), of the consequences of a lucky hit on exposed telephone wires, or whether or not it would be a good idea to use Boy Scouts as messengers during a raid. (When someone suggested that young boys ought to be kept out of harm's way, a veteran father said, "Hell, if there are bombs dropping, you won't be able to keep the kids indoors anyway.") A man from the gas company feelingly urged his fellow wardens not to attempt any repair jobs on broken gas-mains, etc., but to send...
...women is usually milder than in men, often passes unnoticed. Good treatment for infected women, said Dr. Moore boldly, is pregnancy-it greatly fortifies natural immunity. Of course, he stressed, syphilitic women must have a regular course of treatments before, during and after childbirth. Otherwise they may suffer great harm, produce maimed babies. With proper care, the child of a syphilitic mother has an excellent chance of being healthy...