Word: harmful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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States, too, were last week joining the anti-kidnap war. California passed a bill fixing the death penalty or life imprisonment for kidnappers who harm their victims.* In Albany, Governor Lehman urged New York's Legislature to make kidnapping punishable by death unless the victim is returned before trial; to make it a felony to pay ransom or withhold information about a kidnapping case...
...didst provide for the children of Israel to pass dry of foot through the midst of the waters, and didst open for the three Magi a road to Thee by means of a Star, grant unto us, we beseech Thee, a journey prosperous and free from harm; that accompanied by Thy Holy Angel, we may arrive safely at our present destination and come at last to the port of eternal salvation, through Christ Our Lord, Amen...
...editor warned: "Drug with the potency and effects of dinitrophenol is a two-edged sword with appalling possibilities for harm as well as for good...
...Princeton (TIME, March 27et ante). Out of Dr. Ely's came news last week that he-now an internationally famed economist- would open a School of Land Economics in Manhattan next autumn. When Dr. Ely was 77, he took to wife one of his onetime students, Margaret Harm, and last year he became father of an 8-lb. boy. When that boy, William Brewster, goes to college he will doubtless study the Elementary Economics which his father wrote. But if the school which Dr. Ely was launching last week lives up to its founder's purposes, William Brewster...
When Duveen first denounced the Hahn Belle, Mme Harm's husband was a Kansas City auto salesman anxious to help but untutored in the art of expertizing paintings. Last week, while Lord Duveen in his scarlet cloak and cocked hat entered the House of Lords to bow three times before the Lord Chancellor and take his seat as a peer of the realm, Harry J. Hahn reappeared in the New York Press, with every phrase of the art expert's vocabulary at the tip of his tongue. Mr. Hahn was ready to damn Lord Duveen anew and present...