Word: harmful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Binghamton, N. Y., two members of the Board of Education proposed a public book burning, and Superintendent Daniel J. Kelly ordered the books off school library shelves. Said Dr. Kelly: "Sometimes discretion is the better part of valor. . . . Personally, I can see no harm in the books. In fact, they are just the type of material I wish my children and grandchildren...
Prime purpose of the evacuation scheme, which Britain began to organize in 1938, was to get British children and expectant mothers out of harm's way. Of some 3,000,000 urged to leave dangerous areas, only half actually left. Within four months, three-quarters of the evacuees went back home. Moreover, the scheme was based on an unworkable theory: that the population should be spread out, rather than removed from likely bomb targets...
...recriminate. It is just because I believe that you are honorable and patriotic men that I implore you to have the magnanimity to acknowledge the error of your ways to make this sacrifice to our national duty and withdraw into positions where you can do no further harm...
...resort to drainage. Instead, he operated in a blood bath, stitched up his patients' intestines, closed their abdomens without further ado. When the victims recovered like clockwork, with no hint of peritonitis, he decided that free outpouring of blood in the peritoneal cavity might be more help than harm...
...soft rubber tubes. "Indolent" ulcers and "weeping" skin diseases were treated with a paste of chlorophyll and lanolin. Since chlorophyll is bland and soothing, said Dr. Gruskin, it has a great advantage over many standard antiseptics, which are harsh and irritating. Even "floods" of chlorophyll, he continued, do no harm to living tissues...