Word: harmful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Young Louis was a cadet on two of Admiral Beatty's flagships (Lion, Queen Elizabeth), If his royal blood did him no harm, it did not noticeably speed his promotion: a midshipman by 1916, he was a lowly sublieutenant when the war ended...
...same thing. Going even farther, the Deans have excused from all athletics one extremist who felt that all forms of exercise at Harvard were for the sole purpose of building soldiers. Although embracing even aliens and 4-F's, compulsory athletics was fortunately limited before it could do harm. No blind urge for conformity has forced drilling upon men who will never be called to fight anyway...
...students, $700) caters to the daughters of wealthy families who like their girls to be artified and musicked. But Mrs. Cosgrave, who believes in feminine independence, has tried since 1929 to persuade parents that, in a world of disappearing wealth, practical arts would do rich girls no harm. In 1937 she transformed Finch from a pure finishing school into a junior college (like Sarah Lawrence, Stephens...
...Annie doesn't like the soldiers on the back porch. . . . They are looking through the window at Annie. She hates that." "They are doing no harm," said the Colonel. "Well, Annie hates to be stared at." Soon "from the doorway came the sound of an angry woman's voice and a thump and a man's cry." The butler scuttled...
Tender took his life in his hands and visited the blonde girl. "I don't mean any harm," he pleaded, "please let me come in. . . . Can you understand this -can you believe this? Just for a little while, can't we forget this war? Just for a little while. Just for a little while, can't we talk together like people -together?" She looked at him for a long time and smiled. "You don't know who I am, do you?" she said. She was Alex Morden's widow...