Word: harmfully
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Commission said: "State laws requiring special oaths for teachers, or laying down detailed prescriptions for the school curriculum, or establishing uniform tests and criteria of loyalty impair the vigor of local school autonomy and thus do harm to an important safeguard of freedom in education...
...unless they are taken to a store where they can look at their toes in an X-ray fitting machine. Then it's fun. But last week, in the New England Journal of Medicine, Dr. Charles R. Williams of the Harvard School of Public Health warned about the harm that this type of fun might cause, through overexposure to X rays...
...thing, he said in answer to newsmen's needling questions, the U.S. does not have to sell goods to Britain or to anyone else in Europe to stay prosperous. For another, he admitted that U.S. tariff policies could stand improvement ("too many [Americans] believe that imports harm rather than enrich their country"), but he pointed out that, within existing U.S. tariff barriers, British exporters still had ample opportunities. The trouble was that the British had not tried hard enough to exploit them. He put an accurate finger on one reason for British woes: British business had preferred to sell...
Last week, professional polio fighters decided that the scare campaign had gone too far. Dr. Harry M. Weaver, research director of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, declared that false rumors about polio can do more harm than the disease itself. Dr. Weaver stressed the positive gains made in polio research (on which the Foundation has spent almost $11 million, will spend $2,000,000 this year). In fact, these boil down to the knowledge that there are at least three types of polio virus (and possibly several strains of each type), and that the virus is usually transmitted...
...polio at all. Three researchers at the Yale University School of Medicine reported that they had isolated a virus which causes a disease like non-paralytic polio. They found it last year in so-called polio victims in several cities. Still unnamed, the disease apparently does no lasting harm...