Word: harmful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Electric Current. Four years ago, two doctors in Rome named Ugo Cerletti and L. Bini passed an electric current through a dog's brain, gave him a mild convulsion without doing him any harm. They next attempted to faradize psychiatric patients back to normality. Dr. Lothar Kalinowsky of Berlin introduced the new technique to Paris and London, is now working in Manhattan's New York State Psychiatric Institute...
...decide to send the food abroad, the public would admire the British gallantry and feel doubly responsible to support them and see that no harm came to them from this American action. On the other hand if we rejected the plan, the burden of liberating these peoples would be on us and we would be under obligation to see them freed...
...Roosevelt declared that the U.S. was ready to fight for democracy (see p. 13), but Hitler spoke one long sentence that sounded as if he already knew what Franklin Roosevelt would say: "When today the democratic agitators of a country to which the German people have never done any harm . . . threaten to choke the National Socialist people's State . . . with the force of their capitalistic system and of their material production, then there can be only one answer: the German people will never again experience such a year as 1918, but will rise to still higher achievements...
...course I'll never do it on account of (a) I make an effort, at least, to behave like a civilized human being, and (b) if I didn't,I'd be arrested for disorderly conduct and an attempt to do great bodily harm and I'd be thrown in jail...
...doctors believe that the hormone will work most effectively on stubborn fractures, is not necessary to aid normal healing of broken bones. Although they have not yet tried their treatment on men, they are sure that small doses of female sex hormone will do them no harm...