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Word: harmfulness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...went up to Wise that night along with my cousin and not meaning no harm. Along in the evening Raymond Meade came along and said he would give me a lift back to my house in the Pound. There was some more people in the car with him but we let them out down the road a piece and Raymond Meade says to me: 'Let's go to the Little Ritz and get something...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Mountain Murder | 12/2/1935 | See Source »

...Market felt that the U. S. was at last in a definite recovery stage, regarded the present upturn as merely the beginning of the next boom. It saw no harm in getting ahead of the parade, as long as it knew that the parade had started. The spirit of recovery remains considerably superior to its statistics, but the Market was never one to live on bread alone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: The Market | 12/2/1935 | See Source »

...left. Dr. Brodie does not claim that his vaccine is the definitive preventive of infantile paralysis and other physicians will not concede its validity until after some 50,000 children have been inoculated and their resistance to the disease adequately tested. On the other hand, the vaccine does no harm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Scare & Schools | 9/9/1935 | See Source »

...Glaucoma." . . , I have been practicing ophthalmology since October 1902 and am one of the Professors of Diseases of the Eye in the Graduate School of Medicine in the University of Pennsylvania. I have a great many people afflicted with glaucoma under my care, and you have no idea the harm such an article does...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 12, 1935 | 8/12/1935 | See Source »

...unwitting evocation of magical influences is due to the savage's almost universal belief that mere mental attitudes may disrupt the peaceful course of affairs. He thus pays great attention to what Professor Levy-Bruhl calls dispositions. Quarrels are widely believed to set up baneful influences which may harm the whole tribe. Hence politeness and affability are at a premium. Among some American Indians it is not customary to refuse any gift asked for by a guest, lest his displeasure work some ill. When the Fiji Islanders set out a new turtle net, the head of the family implores...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Powers Unseen | 8/5/1935 | See Source »

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