Word: harmful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...American River Canyon looked aloft, beheld a vast mottled cloud moving northwest. Natives of the Sierra Nevada foothills, remembering similar phenomena in 1926, 1919 and 1913, shrugged their shoulders and went back to work. They knew that these butterflies live off wild lilacs and other wild plants, do not harm domestic crops...
...maintained, would help the food and mail order companies. Big loans to railroads would mean orders for the equipment companies. But for the most part the rally was predicated upon hopes. Big Hope No. i was that the Administration was somehow in back of the market, would let no harm befall it, would prod bear flanks unmercifully. Big Hope No. 2 was that there was "something in the air." To assist this second hope, the Press of the land last week got behind the market and shoved amain. Every isolated plant to recall a few workers, every company to show...
...were 4,701 men, 13 women, 17 children-about one half of the police census of the B. E. F. A drum and two bugles furnished all the music. General Glassford on a motorcycle circulated among the marchers, took the friendly salutes of leaders. Parades, he reasoned, do no harm, use up animal spirits. At the Capitol ranks were broken and the Veterans sprawled about to listen to political speeches...
Next day newshawks got busy, interviewed entomologists. These moths would not eat clothes, said the experts, neither would they harm penthouse gardens...
There is, in truth, some danger in state requirements in Education. Such requirements can not be said surely to make for improvement in teaching. They probably do less harm than you or the Dean of Barnard College may suppose; but argument on that point would have to be extensive, leading to rather nice distinctions. It is clear enough that every teacher who is to do anything like a good job should have all the scholarship implied by a good A.B. degree and more besides. In addition, he should have a thorough and well-ordered knowledge of educational conditions, problems...