Word: harmfully
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...proved its thesis: that an adless paper could pay (if the proprietor is rich enough and patient enough to take years of losses). It had not proved, even to the proprietor's satisfaction, that advertising does a paper any special harm. Last week, in his 20th-floor paneled Park Avenue office suite, Publisher Field admitted that his adless daily may start to run ads as soon as paper is plentiful again. Said he musingly: "I think readers like...
Responsible Army, Navy & Marine Corps officers deplored the fracas. They had learned from bitter experience that the airing of such interservice differences could do grave harm...
Sleepwalking, one of the standbys of slapstick humorists, is actually no laughing matter. It is often a symptom of a serious neurosis. And, contrary to popular belief, sleepwalkers are not immune to harm: they are a danger to themselves and others. Instances...
...comic acting and his comic cadenzas alike there are occasional blurs of mood and insight - moments which are like being bonged over the head with a champagne bottle instead of savoring the vintage. But they do no serious harm ; they merely show that Danny Kaye is not yet a great comedian. The exciting thing about his work in Wonder Man, aside from the immediate pleasure it gives, is that it shows he may quite possibly become...
...XRay. Sir Walter Scott, said Mark Twain, did "more real and lasting harm" with his "sham grandeurs" than "any other individual that ever wrote." Today, few Americans suspect how many thousands of native place names are directly or indirectly Sir Walter's. "Poetic" names built around glen, dale, vale, hurst, mere and burn broke out like a rash in the late 1800s; soon they enclosed many cities "like a ring of outer fortifications," protecting them from such vulgarisms as creek, gap, bottom and bluff. "Even if a city-dweller could escape moving to the suburbs [of Larchmont, Glen Cove...