Word: harm
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...baby cries constantly, he wants something; his mother should find out what it is. If he chuckles instead of going to sleep, he probably doesn't need the sleep. Moderate thumb sucking does no harm; if it continues, he may need more affection, a change of routine...
Brandeis became more & more in demand as a business adviser on his terms: to oppose any proposed course which would harm the general situation, on grounds that what would harm the general situation would also harm the entrepreneur. He became the exponent of free enterprise, and by free he meant free; free of the "curse of bigness."his famed phrase, which he applied to monopolies; and also free of unnecessary Federal or State interference...
...coast, the storm raced crazily over almost a thousand miles of sea. It caught a seaman from the tanker Myriam, washed him overboard. Storm warnings flew from the tip of Florida to southern Texas. Four hundred Army planes in the Louisiana maneuvers were ordered into Texas, out of harm...
Sociology A: "While opinions of [Pitirim] Sorokin vary from crackpot to genius, he is still one of the commanding personalities at Harvard. ... It will do you no harm to hear Sorokin on Sorokin at least for half year...
...Boston Symphony to heel. It is now the only big non-union orchestra in the U.S. Following the policy of its late benefactor Colonel Henry Lee Higginson, the Symphony pays union-scale wages and pensions, but believes that union limitations on rehearsals, hirings and firings would do it artistic harm...