Word: harm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stated in his book The Negro and the Schools: "It is here (at the local level) that the South will have to determine the future of its educational system. Wise leadership at the upper levels can help, and emotional excursions by the leaders of either race can do great harm. But in the end the new patterns will have to be hammered out across the table in thousands of scattered school districts, and they will have to be shaped to accommodate not only the needs but the prejudices of whites and Negroes to whom these problems are not abstractions...
...supports are the reason for high food prices, the Eisenhower Administration has set "city against country and country against city." Actually, contended Adlai, in an astonishing defense of a support program leading to continuing surpluses: "Abundance is not a blight but a blessing." Farm production can remain high without harm; surpluses can be distributed where they are needed through a bigger school-lunch program, a food stamp plan for the needy, a world food bank...
...puzzling sensitivities did not react with the usual wheal to scratch tests with any of the common causes of allergy. To explain this, he postulated that the patients must have a concealed reaction marked by quickening of the heartbeat. He called this supposed condition idioblapsis (literally, self-produced harm), sought to confirm it by noting rises in the pulse rates of patients after eating certain foods...
...such a problem in President Wilson's last year, and much harm resulted from it. It would have been immeasurably worse if President Wilson's death had occurred during the course of the war or in a period of great crisis...
...didn't feel any harm from the contest itself," Anne Baker '59 says. "But the pressure from the faculty and upperclassmen made some of us feel doubtful about entering...