Word: harmful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said he: "You must remember that while targets for bombing are almost limitless, bombers are limited and precious. ... Oil fields are scattered and the harm likely to be done by bombing is problematical. . . . The idea that any British capital invested abroad would have the slightest effect upon the decisions taken by the air force is utterly fantastic...
...Hamilton tells how since then "the radioactive isotopes of 21 elements have already been employed . . , as tracers for metabolic studies." Their usefulness is that: 1) chemical and physiological properties of radioelements are identical with those of stable elements; 2) they can be used in tiny quantities which do not harm tissues as radium exposure sometimes injures human flesh; 3) wherever the radioelements go in organisms, they announce their presence by giving off detectable rays...
Although it has been used for burns for hundreds of years, tannic acid may do more harm than good. For: 1) it forms a thick, hard crust, under which germs flourish; 2) it kills delicate new skin cells. The British are now turning away from tannic acid, to other methods-among them, the triple dye treatment of Dr. Aldrich...
...Unoccupied France were forced to accept non-Jewish "provisional" managers, and the Vichy Propaganda and Information Secretariat declared: "Measures the French Government will take in drafting future statutes will be humane but firm. The intention is simply to put [Jews] in a position where they can no longer harm the country. They will be removed from every job where they have a hand on the lever of any French activity -banks, industry, commerce, press, radio, cinema, publishing and the theater, as well as public administration...
...Durable Peace this week began lining up the organized support of U.S. Protestantism for a revolutionary move. They did not go so far as to suggest that the U.S. should follow the Golden Rule. They did, however, propose that Congress set up a Federal agency to study the economic harm that might be done to other countries by any proposed change in U.S. foreign trade, tariff, immigration or monetary policy...