Word: harmful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...know "what has happened at Washington. I don't have to outline in detail what has taken place there, but it has done more harm than all the farmers and wage earners in the United States would ever create. The brains of the Republican Party have been spilled all over the West with the junior Senator of Iowa [Brookhart] throwing not only the monkey wrench but the whole machine shop into the machinery...
...descendants of former generations residing here or the most recent arrivals, restricted emigration laws were passed. I should have preferred to continue the policy of Japanese exclusion by some method less likely to offend the sensibilities of the Japanese people. I did what I could do to minimize any harm that might arise...
...Pink Lady, and vents her acting ability on several skits that besplatter the show. Author Paul Gerard Smith comes out of vaudeville with an itch to thrust satire at his audience. His travesties of The Hairy Ape, Ladies' Night and The Song and Dance Man will work no harm to Eugene O'Neill, Avery Hopwood and George M. Cohan...
...finest Churches and Church-houses. He believes ardently in the good old Bible and the good old Gospel. He has no time to investigate the theological tenets of neighboring "liberal" pastors. He is inclined to let them live, so long as they appear to be doing more good than harm in a practical way. When, therefore, he heard that Charles R. Erdman of Princeton (also a Fundamentalist but not a bitter-ender) was a candidate, Dr. Stone accepted the responsibility of nominating him on a Peace-and-Unity platform...
...since by their very nature the clubs involve a comparatively small number of men, their effect on the Union must always be negligible; similarly, the harm done by their narrowness, their snobbishness and their own little rivalries cannot be great. It is true that representatives of the University who often loomerage in the public eye, more than occasionally belong to final clubs, and from this it may be argued that the outside opinion of Harvard is unduly colored by the "undemocratic" stratum. But undergraduates, knowing the University as it is find it difficult to alarmed by the "vagaries of Public...