Word: harmful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Accusations such as are contained in this article can lead to nothing and only serve to do harm to the greatest of intercollegiate sports. It is unfair to both Princeton and Harvard; to Princeton because it challenges her to defend herself when a defense is uncalled for, to Harvard because of the undignified and unsportsmanlike position in which she is irresistably placed...
...which he was culturing virulent tuberculosis germs had burst. Knowing well the danger of infection the scientist stripped off his clothes and for two hours scrubbed his equipment and laboratory with germ-killing lysol. What germs he had involuntarily inhaled he hoped would die off be fore they could harm...
...MUST-David Garnett-Knopf ($2.50). What shall befall the tall but beautiful, timid but intelligent daughter of a widowed vicar in a hamlet of the English fen country? Author T. F. Powys would surely bring her to harm through the primeval malice of some local lout. Sheila Kaye-Smith might supply her with a young gentleman and beset their true love with gossip and the father's disapproval. H. G. Wells would find her at least a temporary career; Arnold Bennett would describe her shoelaces and thoughts on dusting the stairs. Hugh Walpole might make her a sweet minor...
...Tristram Speaker, Joseph Wood and Leonard agreed that Detroit should win the ball game of Sept. 24, 1919, from Cleveland, and that they four would bet on it. Cleveland had second place in the league clinched; Detroit could be allowed to win the game and gain third place without harm to Cleveland, did win that game, 9 to 5. Cobb and Speaker both testified last week that they had not violated baseball ethics. Wood, who is now head baseball coach at Yale, could not be reached. Meanwhile critics pointed out that Cobb, according to Leonard's own statement...
...early games of the football season are always hard ones and productive of injuries," said Coach Farrell. "The men have not attained the smooth efficiency of play that comes later in the fall, and carlessness leads to certain injury. A knock that late in the year might do no harm may cause serious injury at this early stage of the game...