Word: harmful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...code, are now considered to be acts which are as natural as eating and drinking. Indeed, youth often decides on the basis of expediency or worthwhileness, whether sexual intercourse should be indulged in, never thinking of any after effects, because they believe there will be none. They see no harm in it-science will protect them; and science generally does. . . . Whatever we may think of such conduct, the thing for us to notice is that it does exist, and that largely because of scientific knowledge many people are finding reasonable justification for doing things they never would have thought...
...Gosh, I didn't mean any harm. I just felt patriotic and wanted to do a personal favor-that...
...week one Ray Doll, Chicago junk dealer, went so far as to fire a shotgun when he saw an eye peeking and peering at him through a knothole in his garage. The shotgun shell sped straight, blew out the brains of one Robert Hailey, 15, Negro, who meant no harm...
...seems likely that the 'Tiger' may prove itself some time a rival by no means to be despised. Naturally we doubt if the 'Lampoon' is in any imminent danger of being surpassed by either the 'Spectator' or the 'Tiger', but a healthy and friendly emulation can do no harm, and may result in a considerable improvement in all three...
...deplored, however, is the prominence given to Harvard as a woman's college; it is this sort of thing that works more harm than it affords amusement. Internal criticism of whatever nature is always permissible, but amusing oneself at the public expense of others is particularly bad taste. A case in point is the memorable Lampoon issue of last fall embodying what the editors thought legitimate humor. In the Tiger it would have been, but that would have been a laughing with rather than at. The Daily Princetonian...