Word: harmfully
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this is as it should be, perhaps, in an institution devoted to the development of the mind. But we would contend that there is no harm in extending the advantages of a Harvard education to otherwise qualified men who also play football...
...line with all they have on every play, unless they can call the signals ... I believe that the public hearing of the grievances of a few officers who will not accept the decisions of the authorities established by law . . . have done infinite harm to our national defense...
Cinemactress Bette Davis, 41, went into hiding after asking for a divorce from her third husband, William Grant Sherry, 34. Bette's suit charged that Sherry, an ex-pugilist turned artist, had threatened her with "bodily harm." Said Sherry: "That girl and I were made for each other . . . It's just a matter of controlling my awful temper, but I know we can patch this thing up if we can just see each other again...
...stay at jail did Curley anything but harm, politically. Not only did he vastly improve himself by reading every book in the jail library but he conducted a campaign from behind bars, too. In all his forthcoming politics, he used the slogan, "Curley would go to jail for a man." In another instance he set up a platform outside the jail facing Beacon Hill. Pointing first to the Hill and then to the jail, he addressed his North End crowd, "They (the Hill) put me in there (the jail...
Tennessee's Boss Crump, whose domain shrank last election from the whole state to just the city of Memphis (and surrounding Shelby County), decided that there would be no harm now in admitting his age: 75. Never bothered to set folks right before, he told reporters, "because you've misrepresented me for 20 years, and had me younger, not older." Not that age makes any difference, he added: "You should never quit playing because you are old-you grow old because you quit playing. I enjoy life. I love life. I love people." Gloria Swanson, high-styled siren...