Word: harmful
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Christians are trying to maintain between the City of the World and the City of God. "... it [integration] would be a hollow victory if it wrecked our school system or did harm to our children." Is not the fact that roughly 90% of the Christian missionaries of the world are being frustrated by our example of segregation in their attempts to bring the Gospel to the colored races a rather concrete defeat? Where does the balance lie between...
...Jacquemar, no Bellerophon, is unable to slay this particular Chimera. He falls hopelessly in love with Gabrielle and is endlessly deceived. Watching as she frolics with a farm boy, Jacquemar thinks: "The bitch is democratic." Age, status or wealth mean nothing to her "so long as she can do harm...
...Azdak settles the case by the ancient test of the Chalk Circle. She who has the strength to pull the child out of the circle must be adjudged his real mother. Both pull, and suddenly Grusha yields. And so the child is awarded to Grusha, who would not harm...
Dreary, Desolate, Dismal. Cheerfulness about the prospects of tinkering successfully with the economy, and doing a lot more good than harm in the process, contrasts strikingly with the gloominess that tinged economics during much of its history. To the British writer Thomas Carlyle in the middle of the 19th century, the classical economics, with its stress on the iron inexorability of economic laws, seemed "dreary, desolate, and indeed quite abject and distressing . . . the dismal science...
...population in our state. If the full federal power cannot carry this off, it's fatuous to think we can. I would take the risk on high moral principles, but it would be a hollow victory if it wrecked our school system or did harm to our children...