Word: harmful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Boas sees no harm for the U. S. in assimilating alien populations. He believes it would help make a more homogeneous nation and abate race prejudice if there were more unions between white men and Negro women. He thinks the eugenists might as well call off their dream of breeding toward an ideal man until there is some agreement as to what the ideal is. He reminds eugenists that the exclusion of imbeciles among immigrants to the U. S. has not prevented imbecility from cropping up among their children...
Such an attitude is always an unworthy one, since it is beneath the dignity of a civilized people for one thing, and for another, always does more harm than good to all the parties involved. In the matter of the "Hindenburg" it would be even more regrettable, for then the extraordinary significance of this event would be obscured by a distasteful flurry of paltry pellets of jingoistic mud. The "Hindenburg" was built for trausatlantic passenger service: she is the first airship to be commissioned for this purpose, since the "Graf Zeppelin" was primarily an experimental ship. Commanded by Germany...
...attain the popularity of Psychology A. But at least a graduate of the elementary course would no longer come forth with his taste for psychology blunted through innocuous teaching, or with the conviction that he really knew something about the subject, merely because of the course's superficiality. The harm done either the concentrator or the non-concentrator in either case is as obvious as it is destructive...
Despite the reassurances of the treasure's expert Chinese guardians, who said that no amount of shaking could harm it in its 90 silk-lined steel cases, His Majesty's Government spent a jittery three days before tugs succeeded in hauling the Ranpura off its bad spot...
...Tiens.' And then he said 'How is your papa called?' And I said 'Abbe.' So he said 'What a family.' " The children soon got their father's number. "Papa is a very poor business man, but he does no one any harm. He just doesn't understand about money." They remembered many a grownup remark, such as the Frenchman's on "funny people from England": " 'Such bounders. All puffed up and bragging about knowing Augustus Johns, the painter. No real dignity in life...