Word: harmfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...abolish the entire system if a substitute could only be found. Woodrow Wilson when President of Princeton had section men make up his final tests. He is known to have on occasion described the result as the "limit" and assured his students, "I'll see that it won't harm...
...unicorn takes his place in the zoo which never existed as a sharp contrast to harpies, gorgons, sea serpents, lamias, werewolves, dragons. He is virtually the only one who did not harm man. Legend locates him in India, China, Florida, Africa, Canada, Germany, The Bronx. He was usually supposed to have the body of a horse (sometimes an ass, a goat) with a sharp horn (from a few inches to seven feet long) protruding from his forehead. In combat he could destroy a lion. He refused to allow man to capture him alive. His horn, said the alchemists, would...
...harm they may have done is offset in some degree in the public mind by the knowledge that it is a case of childishness run riot and that the men guilty of the folly have failed utterly to grasp the spirit of sportsmanship, good fellowship and good taste taught by the university they so completely misrepresent...
...particularly coarse American vine which flourishes on German soil almost without care. Growing like a weed, it yields mass production quantities of a crude, strong wine which can be sold to workmen's taverns at a big profit per acre. Abounding in strength, the American vine carries without harm to itself a phylloxera louse which is now spreading with deadly results to the laboriously tended German vines of neighboring estates in the Rkeinpfalz...
...find it. Naturally the people in Paris worshipped those guns and being unable to wear them they made the fetich referred to by Mr. Coble to wear in place of them. They also gave them to their men folks, for were they not protecting Paris from harm, and might they not protect the soldiers even if they were not in Paris...