Word: harmfulness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...leaders, though, were behind the $24,000,000. Samuel Edgar Nicholson, associate New York Anti-Saloon League Superintendent, protested the position taken by the national League. To Dr. McBride he wrote: "I hope that the League will find a way to get out of this situation with as little harm as possible and then make sure that we do not get caught in such a jam again...
...catch from infected rabbits (TIME, June 18 & Nov. 26). Academically, rabbit fever is termed tularemia, after Tulare County, Calif., where in 1910 it was first identified. Doctors, however, prefer to call it Francis Disease, in honor of Dr. Francis, who isolated the germ (Bacterium tularense) to his own harm, malaise and inconvenience...
...only as a service to those who take their Art seriously, the College can do nothing but good by airing all comment, both adverse and laudatory which may occur from time to time in regard to this painting. No harm can come to great things through the mouthings of little men and there is only benefit when an artificial mask of excellence is torn away by the competent critic...
...distance and Captain C.E. Brickley '15, injured and on the bench, was sent into the fray apparently to try for a goal from the field and the satisfaction of scoring against Yale in the year of his captaincy. Using Brickley as a decoy, far out of the way of harm, Watson '16, at quarter, proceeded to score a touchdown by a seres of five plays, ending in a forward pass to Hardwick. Brickley had the satisfaction of kicking the goal after touchdown...
Some of the subjects under which Mr. Russell discusses the value of scepticism are: Dreams and Facts; Is Science Superstitious? Can Men be Rational? Philosophy in the Twentieth Century; Eastern and Western Ideals of Happiness; The Harm That Good Men Do; The Need for Political Scepticism; Freedom in Society; Some Prospects: Cheerful and Otherwise...