Word: harmfully
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fish & Wildlife Service wants to stamp out lampreys before they do more harm. Dr. John van Oosten of the Great Lakes Division thinks a weak spot may be found in their breeding customs. In late May and June, the lampreys put on their courting colors (mottled brown, yellow and orange) and enter rapid rivers. By clinging with their suckers, they can work their way up foaming rapids or the faces of 40-ft. dams...
This view, that a recession would do more economic good than harm, was shared by Federal Reserve Board Chairman Marriner S. Eccles. He thought "deflation now inevitable." The sooner it came, "the less painful" it would be. But it was Chase National Bank Chairman Winthrop Aldrich who administered the largest dose of soothing syrup. In Switzerland he told the International Chamber of Commerce, which he had headed for two years: "Europe does not need to fear that an American postwar corrective recession will degenerate into a depression. . . . [Recessions] are necessary to reduce costs and prices to a level which permits...
Indignantly now he told the Senate subcommittee that Jed was "unfit" to be a judge. "I was willing to sacrifice him.. . . ." he cried . "He would do less harm as a customs judge [than as a Congressman], I didn't think then that he was qualified...
...problems. He must still 1) find an acceptable substitute for the vetoed Farm Bill; 2) settle the still unratified trade treaty with Argentina which the Communists favored while they were in the Cabinet; 3) wangle more loans from Washington, where his anti-Communist stand will do no harm...
...birthday-celebration spread in the Sunday features. The publicity Jim got at the eighth birthday party gave his business such a spurt that Downey's is closed two days a week now for lack of stock. "Sure the extra rest will do the boys no harm," Jim said last week, but he won't settle the strike. "If I can," he insists, "I'll will it to my successors...