Word: harmfulness
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Assistant School Superintendent William G. Tobin quashed the chance that the more moderate of the Center's redistricting alternatives might at least get further consideration when he told the School Committee, "No part of this plan is educationally defensible; in my opinion, it does more harm than good...
...inventing an electric razor, singing in a national radio contest. Nothing worked. Then, as he later told the judge, "I suddenly remembered the theory of my professor of political economics at the University of Danzig. He said that a man who lights a cigar with his bank note is harming the entire society, for every bill in circulation contributes to the wealth of the society. Stretching the theory just a bit, one might well say that the man who makes a false bill and introduces it into circulation is doing society no harm...
...German diplomats whose reports are so crucial to his thesis. Von Bergen, for example, was an ambitious professional diplomat who hoped for promotion in Germany's foreign service. Von Weizsacker was an anti-Nazi Protestant who apparently wished to prevent Hitler from taking any action that would harm Pius personally...
...purposely harm me in any way," said Peggy, "other than the fear, the tension, and the hardship of being in the woods and being away from my family...
Wilson--no doubt playing the best he can--will have to come up with the biggest game of his career. Until now his two-year layoff from organized lacrosse seems to have done him much harm. Shots which most of the Ivy goalies would have a fair chance of stopping Wilson never sees...