Word: harmful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Obstetrician. The notion that expectant mothers should quit work and take to their beds was attacked by Dr. Nicholson J. Eastman of Johns Hopkins. Deploring the common industrial practice of discharging pregnant women, he cited wartime findings that light factory work does them no harm, that they can safely work until six weeks before delivery. Dr. Eastman added that women do not need as much rest between babies as commonly supposed; a study of 38,000 mothers showed that the optimum interval is one to two years (TIME...
...president [of G.E.] ... I am opposed to reconversion," he wrote. "These statements . . . were, in my opinion, inspired by subordinate officials [on] the personal staff of Mr. Nelson. . . I cannot answer them unless I employ publicity experts. I am unwilling to do that. The dissension within the organization does harm to the war production effort. Therefore, I tender herewith my resignation...
...years Hattie Wyatt Caraway sat quietly in the U.S. Senate, doing nobody any harm. The small, 66-year-old widow never seemed to change; she always sat still and demure in her billowy Victorian black dress; when spring came, she simply added a white embroidered collar. Her habits and mind were simple and domestic. Outside "Miss Hattie's" door in the mahogany-&-marble Senate Office Building stood a little row of milk bottles. While her male colleagues bellowed and fumed and passed fateful legislation, she sat and worked crossword puzzles; often just sat listening, for hours. When she voted...
They started with an assertion the opposite of Ruml's: "Relatively heavy corporate income-tax rates are not as harm ful to the private enterprise system as are heavy individual income-tax rates...
...highly bred animals, is usually physiologically knocked out by the birth process, disagree with Dr. Rotstein. Said a Manhattan obstetrician: "A [new] mother . . . needs a complete physical rest [and] her nervous system must rest also. . . . Unless [the muscular supports] are given full opportunity to resume their normal position, inestimable harm may be done." To relieve Manhattan ward crowding, many cases are sent home early, but are advised to stay in bed a total of two weeks...