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Word: harmful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...port and none lit in the town. Some shell fragments did scatter, naturally, and in at least one other locality, some houses were hit and a number of Arabs were killed. However, I would not have believed it possible for operations on such a scale to cause so little harm to civilians. Certainly the Americans did everything to avoid injuring the town...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 8, 1943 | 2/8/1943 | See Source »

...Atabrine, a drug developed in Germany, does what quinine does and with smaller dosage. But its action is slower, it is a little more toxic and is excreted so slowly that doctors have to take care lest it accumulate in the body and do harm. Like quinine, it does not kill sexual forms of malignant tertian malaria. There is plenty of atabrine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: No Cure for Malaria | 2/1/1943 | See Source »

Care of Wounds. "Wash or douche the wound with clean salt water; this may sting when applied to a raw area but it is good local treatment. Do not attempt vigorous cleaning of fuel oil from a wound; the oil is unlikely to do harm. . . . Sick men are apt to become restless and lightheaded. . . . Keep a lookout that they do not go over the side, because sick men sometimes imagine they are back at home . . . and will, for example, want to go and get themselves a drink of water...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Design for Living | 1/25/1943 | See Source »

...real relations of things will soon be seen, and that they can be seen in no other way." "In spite of the risk of injury to the institution, the objections to restraint upon what professors may say as citizens seem to me far greater than the harm done by leaving them free." Sentiments like those were only too rare in a country that seemed to be forgetting and forsaking the principles upon which it was waging...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Abbott Lawrence Lowell | 1/7/1943 | See Source »

...told a press conference the claim that the big Army would seriously harm the domestic economy would be unpopular in the midst of a very serious...

Author: By United Press, | Title: Enlistments in Navy Open, Directed by Draft Boards | 12/16/1942 | See Source »

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