Word: harmful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Interparliamentary Union. They came in high ships up the harbor and debarked along the drab waterfront, some of them met by friends, many of them by Communists, AntiFascists, any expatriated faction which disrelished what they did at home. But Mayor Hylan's policemen preserved them from harm, and Mayor Hylan himself spoke to them...
...lend their minds, unharassed, to the service of human thought-men like Elihu Root, John Hay, Admiral Mahan, Steinmetz. Scholarship would come into its heritage; universities would be dignified. "Our typical 'University' of today would gradually find its place in the new system. Perhaps no great harm comes from assembling these vast crowds of healthy, noisy, young people. Let them enjoy themselves. But why miscall such a place of rendezvous a university...
...sorry to be jumping so heavily on you, Lampy, but I feel that sometimes you don't do yourself justice; and a little public criticism is no harm if given with a good heart...
...President had been bearded, most assurely his whiskers would have been clipped last week by an automobile that swept around a corner on H Street as he was taking his constitutional. One of of secret service guardians snatched him from harm's way. Another jumped on the car's running board and had the driver arrested by the nearest policeman. The fellow was charged with cutting corners and failing to give the right of way to pedestrians, was bailed...
...Barfod, the parson's daughter. It chanced to rain. They were by a cave. Taking shelter, they just talked. But a vagabond Lapp chanced to be passing as the rain let up, and he spread a rumor. Benoni denied stoutly, until the notoriety brought him more pleasure than harm. Then he half-admitted, hinted, boasted...