Word: harmed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...desire to avoid a steel strike, we cannot overlook the effect both on this corporation and on our customers and American business in general. An 18½?-an-hour wage increase . . . must result in higher prices for steel than have previously been proposed by the Government. Great financial harm would soon follow for all users of steel. . . . Such a high and unjustified wage scale might well spell financial disaster for many of the smaller steel companies and for a large number of steel fabricators and processors. The nation needs the output of these companies...
Many a U.S. schoolboy has wandered in the bright worlds into which Artist N.C. (for Newell Convers) Wyeth made many a window. With the Deerslayer, Sir Lancelot and Long John Silver, they have hunted, dueled, and sailed the painted spaces where no real harm ever comes to heroes. Wyeth had a high talent for getting the maximum of action into his adventure illustrations with the minimum of gross bloodshed which might offend parents more than boys...
Controversy over the relative merit or harm of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's actions and policies may use up many future hours of learned discussion, not to mention those already spent...
...Emily Harm's boyish-looking Major Charles Boxer, 41, finally arrived in Manhattan from Hong Kong, ran from a plane into her arms, posed with her and their four-year-old daughter, Carola. As the Major got news from Britain that his wife, Ursula, had finally divorced him (Miss Hahn considered herself divorced from her onetime Chinese companion, Sin-may), the well-publicized couple planned to make it legal this week...
Such continued bickering would "do irreparable harm to the end which we all seek in the name of national security: the comradeship of all branches of the armed service. Once destroyed . . . that spirit cannot be revived by any legislative fiat or organizational chart...