Word: harmful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from the title of the picture Gentleman Jim but you have done so at your own risk and prejudice. It is definitely not your privilege to say that I quit work at my studio. Such a statement reflects most seriously on my professional integrity and has done me great harm in the motion-picture industry and elsewhere. Nor, despite whatever pipe dream gave you the notion, was any plumber blown through my cellar door. Your most vicious slur was that "even escape into the anonymity of the Army is impossible-Flynn has 'athlete's heart...
Last week Dr. H. Harris Perlman and co-workers of Jewish Hospital in Philadelphia reported in the A.M.A. Journal tests with Daphnia which showed that smoking does not harm a nursing mother if the mother smoked before her child was born, because 1) the baby apparently cannot get enough nicotine that way to hurt him, 2) before he is born he develops a tolerance for nicotine from the nicotine in his mother's blood. The doctors insist their findings are no argument for prospective mothers to take up smoking...
General Giraud, the soldier, had recognized the military situation dictating Darlan's appointment and, with a soldier's judgment of the tactical problem, had accepted the Darlan solution. In the minds of many non-Vichy Frenchmen, this had done his reputation much harm; certainly it had made cooperation between him and De Gaulle impossible until the obstacle of Darlan was removed. The Fighting French had hoped to join forces with the popular escapist Giraud, a hope that had been frustrated before they had been able even to establish contact with...
Your attitude on the Pepper-Geyer anti-poll tax bill seems most unfair to me. I, too, am heartily opposed to the poll tax, itself. Yet to me and to all Southerners this bill seems an unconstitutional interference in our affairs and is bound to do more harm than good...
...Some thought this might refer to gas. The Nazis, however, have hitherto held that gas warfare is unpractical, would harm them as much as the enemy...