Word: harmful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...concerned. Bracken added, he believed reported anti-British feeling in the U.S. was considerably exaggerated. And before cooling down he had his say about British lecturers: "There will be no more of them going to the U.S. They do more harm than good."* From across the ocean the Washington News added an amen...
Ralph McAllister Ingersoll, 41-year-old editor of the New York tabloid PM, told his draft board he wanted to "be in the job where I can do this country's enemies the most harm," was classified 1-A, ordered to report for induction this week-at 5:45 a.m. But his rejection by Army doctors was still possible...
...Harvard has assumed that its students are adults, and so far the assumption has stood the test fairly well. This year, as is usual in Summer School, there will be a series of dances, teas, and so forth, designed to help people get acquainted. It doesn't do any harm to make use of them, and it may help a great deal. The Houses, into which Freshmen are moving for the first time, will make arrangements for men of 1946 to meet and to cement some sort of class solidarity. All of these social events are entirely voluntary...
...Andes where my wife and I are making anthropological studies of the Aymara Indians, we had occasion to attend one of their ceremonies which was designed to placate an important spirit. In deference to our presence, the Indian medicine men made additional offerings to this deity "so that no harm will befall the United States, and so that she may triumph over her enemies...
Even though the Indians don't know where the U.S. is, I suppose that it does not do any harm to have a few additional supernaturals on our side...