Word: harmfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Observers guessed last week that the Globe's publicity might do harm to young Professor Murdock. It might make Harvard change its mind. Also, even if Professor Murdock is elected dean, he will have potent rivals for the presidency. Among those spoken of are: Boston Lawyer Charles Pelham Curtis Jr., 36, clubman, sportsman, member of a distinguished Harvard family (but he stutters a bit, a disadvantage in a Harvard president); Secretary of the Navy Charles Francis Adams (he probably would not accept); Professor Francis Bowes Sayre of Harvard Law School, personable son-in-law of the late Woodrow Wilson...
...round, nearly did it again in the seventh and eighth, hammered Petrolle when he caught him in a corner in the ninth. At the end of the tenth round Petrolic, still savage, landed two hard rights on McLarnin's face, but they were too late to do any harm. McLarnin did not wait for the referee to tell him he had won before turning his handspring...
...Last week Department of Agriculture chemists announced they were successfully experimenting with a new insecticide called rotenone which would not harm warm-blooded creatures. Derived from the roots of tropical plants, it is already in commercial production by two manufacturing companies...
...75th birthday. Interviewers wished they might see him as he used to be seen in his Colorado laboratory a generation ago, strolling or sitting like a calm Mephistopheles amid blazing, thundering cascades of sparks 30 ft. long, Tesla currents alternating at such prodigious frequency that they would not harm a kitten. But instead they found him, not without some difficulty, in seclusion on the 20th floor of Manhattan's Hotel Governor Clinton. Pale but healthy, thin to ghostlincss but strong and alert as ever, he received his callers in quiet. His , hair is slate grey, overhanging eyebrows almost black...
Minister of War, Herr Karl Vaugoin, a bristling, strutting, "strong man." As Austria is disarmed he can do small harm...