Word: harmful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mother (Craig Rice) is not plump, and the fact that you described her as such (TIME, July 29) is going to do a great deal of harm to the family campaign to make her gain 15 pounds...
Method & Error. Professor Northrop, who teaches the philosophy of science at Yale, will not abide condemnation of science as such. "Nothing," he says, "can do more harm to democracy than the thesis, so popular with many contemporary moral and religious leaders, that science is neutral, if not positively evil, with respect to human values...
...cells, but an unidentified chemical which they secreted. Dr. Roskin called in his wife. A Moscow University microbiologist named Nina Klyueva, she developed a solution from inactivated trypanosomes -KR for the two doctors' initials. Tests proved that the KR solution cured cancer implanted in mice, but did not harm healthy mice. To make sure that it had no ill effects on human beings, Dr. Roskin injected himself with the solution...
...have good-naturedly renamed jeeps Schlampenschlepper (hussy buggies), fraternize with zest. But Austrians live in an old, proud civilization, still sprinkled with feudal glitter; while they fear that Russia might smash it completely, they are not so sure that the Americans, with their strange, casual-tough ways, might not harm it too. They would like to get rid of all occupiers, Eastern and Western alike. Viennese cabaret skits express their mood. Samples...
Harry Truman well knew that organized labor would never forget that it was Snyder who urged him into his hasty draft-labor proposal. But Mr. Truman is fiercely loyal to his friends. Cried the New Dealing New York Post: "It is doubtful whether John Snyder could do as much harm in his new post...