Word: harmful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trimotored Ford when an outboard propeller broke. Vibration shook a motor loose, lodged it in a wing strut, damaged the landing gear. Pilot Freeburg swung his ship out over the Mississippi River, banked steeply, shook the engine loose, dropped it into the water where its 500 lb. could harm no one. Then, on two motors, he flew 25 mi. to an emergency field, landed his passengers safely. For that he received from President Roosevelt the Post Office Department's first Air Mail Flyer's Medal of Honor...
...make the field unprofitable for student organizations, with consequent lessening of competition and a corresponding rise in prices. But in the meantime, indications are that there will be a stiff fight for every student shirt or pair of trousers to be laundered or pressed, with the possibility of harm to the capital investment of student entrepreneurs who have entered these fields in which competition is apparently uncontrollable...
...Science take, a holiday? Sir James as the astronomer-physicist president of the Association, held out doggedly against such an idea one day on one platform. The next day on another platform Sir Josiah, as the Association's economist-tycoon treasurer, seemed to think it would do no great harm...
...front cover) One day last week a bather at Bethany Beach, Del. walked into the surf wearing his wrist watch. The salt water all but ruined the watch but did not harm the bather. For sea baths, sunshine and rest in company with his wife were decidedly good for General Hugh S. Johnson?all the better because, as the watch incident showed, he was still preoccupied with business...
...does not matter whether the parent attributes babies to God, a mother or a cabbage patch. Let the parent be casual, unselfconscious and not worry if the child refuses to believe what he is told or quickly forgets or misunderstands. Likewise Dr. Adams says fairy tales do no harm because the child's world is an arbitrary one, "a definite period of living which has its own characteristic prejudices and predilections...