Word: harmfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mean--and unless Mr. Hopkins is an imbecile, he knows it--that "education is for the privileged free who have money." It simply means that Williams College is not going to be an instrument for the carrying out of a government policy which its President feels will ultimately harm the future of Williams; and her function as an educational institution...
...feels a need for it. But to require a man, in the most skeptical stage of his life, to listen to backward doctrines is injurious in the extreme. He will seek to satisfy the needs religion should fill in other, less beneficial ways; and the results will surely wreak harm to an age that cannot withstand many more drains on the morals, the fairness to its students, and out of consideration for society. Princeton should abolish compulsory attendance at chapel, and give religion a chance to meet the challenge of the times...
...form of a blizzard of pamphlets proclaiming: "Out Of His Own Mouth Shall He Be Judged." Material was culled from Author Sinclair's iconoclastic shelf of writings over a period of 30 years. These were sorted and directed toward groups in which they would do Sinclair most harm : Catholics, Christian Scientists, Mormons, University of Southern California alumni, Parent-Teachers Associations, etc. Sample: "Christianity has been . . . the chief of the enemies of social progress. . . . We should break down the Catholic machine, and not all the priests in the hierarchy should stop us. . . . It is these [Catholic] societies which . . . are pushing...
...Divorcee (RKO). In adapting the successful musicomedy which kept Dancer Fred Astaire busy for a year in Manhattan and London, RKO's most apparent change was to insert an accent and an extra e in the last word of the title. This should cause no greater harm than mispronunciation among cinemaddicts. For the rest, the picture sticks to the pattern of its footlight original, with satisfactory results. Fred Astaire is still the centre of whatever plot there is. A dancer on a European holiday, he pursues a young lady (Ginger Rogers) who is seeking divorce from an absurd geologist...
...Richberg last Thursday comes, the writer imagines, as a severe shock. To quote him: "These difficulties in N.R.A. have come. . . because of the pressure of businessmen to experiment with de- vices that they thought would do them good and which they have found in many instances are doing them harm." This is why Big Business is protesting the contemplated move by N.R.A. to abandon price control, despite its failure to raise prices. Big Business invented N.R.A. Big Business wants N.R.A. For businessmen simply followed the old adage: "If you can't lick 'em, jine 'em." N.R.A. is legalized monopoly...