Word: harmfully
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Lord Balfour consoled England recently for the loss of its many international athletic trophies in a manner which does credit to traditional British sportsmanship. In a debate with the editor of the National Review on the question "Does golf do more harm than good?" Lord Balfour expatiated on lawn tennis, which he enjoys, but he also took advantage of the occasion to make it plain that England should feel no tragedy in the passing of athletic laurels to other countries...
Perhaps the authorities fear that the sentimental reaction that most hunger strikes engender among hoi polloi will harm their party were they to let Miss MacSwiney carry out her harmless threat. Unquestionably the public watches with awe and apprehension the lengthening days of the hunger strike, lending the victims a gradually increasing support of maudlin sympathy. Since the days of Pre-war Suffragettes in England, the hunger strike has become the last resort of persons who could not attain their ends by any other method...
...York Times: "It is a plan which cannot work harm and may be productive of good...
...spite of the fact that much of the first social service in this country was started by students in universities, the value and potential effectiveness of undergraduate volunteers is still questioned. While no one can deny that more harm than good is done by haphazard and lackadaisical humanitarianism, it does not in the least follow that therefore all such impulses should be incontinently stifled...
...drayman lost an action in a law court. He was very angry, named his two donkeys after his two lawyers, painted their names on the animals' blinders, drove through the streets of Dortmund. The sensitive lawyers sued for defamation of character. The drayman swore that he meant no harm. The Judge asked: "If you had a third donkey, what would you name him?" The drayman retorted: "That's no business of the fourth." Thirty days in jail was the Judge's kick...