Word: harmful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...proportion of notes to cash. Even the biggest and most secure branches, such as General Electric, American Telephone &Telegraph, United States Steel, constituted inflated currency when their securities stood at 403, 310 and 261 respectively. So long as the depositors did not begin to brood over this inflation, no harm was done. But so soon as the lines started forming at the paying teller's window, the Crash was inevitably swift...
...burthen of many addresses was-and Dr. Norman Edwin Titus of Columbia repeated it when he was inducted as the College's president-the warning that artificial sun lamps, vibration machines (electrical or mechanical) and all the things which the skilled physical therapist uses, can do more harm than good if they are not controlled and practiced by graduate physicians trained in physical therapy...
Assistant Postmaster-General Coleman replied that the Department meant no harm to publishers, would watch carefully for any encroachment by the auctions on private business. The auctions continued on alternate Wednesdays through October, with publishers still vexed...
...Post's Isaac Marcosson, "world's most famed" interviewer, chose him as prime subject for investigation last summer. During an interview which extended over days, the matchmaker said: "There is not a single competitor with sufficient influence upon the different markets to cause us any really serious harm. No market is sufficiently significant to be of importance to us. The reason is that the whole world is our field...
...against a lawyer. Lawyers, you know, are supposed to spend all their time settling the troubles of other people. I spend most of my time trying to settle with my lawyers. Now if Dr. Barbour really did say that a college is a place for study, what is the harm? If he wants to do something new along educational lines, let him do it. There never lived a finer, manlier man than Dr. Barbour. . . . Despite obstacles, where others fall by the wayside, he goes steadily forward-and with a smile though his back may be breaking...