Word: harmful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Both Columbia University and New York University opened with addresses which discussed social control or social order from two points of view. Professor SMITH, in welcoming the students at Columbia, spoke of the need of a large sphere of freedom for the individual. The occasional harm which may result from giving him unhampered liberty to follow his bent is "the price which society must pay for "genius, for character and progress." Dean MARSHALL S. BROWN at New York University on the other hand, put the emphasis on obedience to the lawfully expressed will of the majority...
Giving him a hypodermic of strychnine at best was a useless procedure. It may have done him harm. All the man needed was air. Had it been at hand, inhalation of a mixture of oxygen and carbonic acid might have been called for. At any rate, that is what should be found on ambulances today. In all probability this fireman did not need even that, since he does not seem to have been much knocked out. The use of ammonia might have been justified, particularly after the man was moved well away from the smoke, but even it is doubtful...
...swing the pendulum to the opposite extreme Perhaps the movement to reform football is distined to take some such radical direction before it finally settles to a sensible point in between glorification and abolishment of the game. It is probable, however, that such violent measures will do more harm than good by incensing devotees of football against any reform whatever...
...famed 500-mile sweepstakes at Indianapolis last week, Ralph de Palma, veteran driver, had a nephew-a dark diminutive youth with a countenance like a mask bitten out of sandstone by the wind. Uncle de Palma was a trifle worried. The boy was reckless; he might do himself harm. All day, as the cars circled, he kept his eye on the little cream-colored machine driven by Nephew Pete de Paolo. The whippersnapper was assuredly reckless, for the first 50 miles he led the roaring, crackling, reeking, spitting pack at a canter of 104 mi. an hour, was passed...
...barristers of the old days looked at each other with a leer. "His guilt sticks in his gullet," their look said. If his guilt is all that sticks there, declared Dr. J. D. Osmond to the Radiological Society of North America in Atlantic City, last week, it will not harm him. But if it is his food, he may get cancer. Said Dr. Osmond: "Prolonged nervous strain and gulping of food, such as many American business men experience today, is highly dangerous. It is apt to produce what is known as cardiospasm, when the nerves do not coordinate, and when...