Word: harming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sale of The Marion Star got him summoned before the oil investigating committee and verbally chastised, has set about the business of unofficial investigation. He founded the Citizens Federal Research Bureau to delve deeply into the corruption of Washington. To make it useless for anyone to do him harm in hope of stopping his earnest probings, he took out a $1,000,000 policy in favor of his Bureau. Sard he: "I am not only shadowed constantly, but so are those who come to see me. Somebody's money is being spent for this. You can draw your...
...floor of the 47 Workshop was covered with an inch of water. The harm done to the scenery cannot be estimated until it dries out. "If it warps," said Professor G. P. Baker '87 when questioned by a CRIMSON reporter, "it will be destroyed, but I cannot tell yet just what will happen. By the greatest piece of luck all the scenery for our coming play next week was removed yesterday to Agassiz House...
...general public in the performance of scientists and practical applications of their discoveries is an increasingly important field, too often neglected, and too often made difficult by the inflexibility of the publisher's demands. In this field, then, rather than in the department of fiction, does standardization do real harm. An appreciation by the publishers that a greater profit might be derived from selling a hundred thousand copies at one dollar than from disposing of three thousand at three dollars and a half might assist materially in alleviating the present distress...
...great expense, in a great deal of hard feeling, and in serious consequences for the offenders. The Freshmen of course have no memory of that nor of the great riot several years ago and the impossible situation which it created, and they clearly do not realize what harm may result from a super-abundance of energy carelessly applied. So far the record of 1927 has been extremely good all in all, but the authorities cannot afford a recurrence of previous situations, and any tendency towards another riot will be sternly suppressed and the offenders treated with the utmost severity...
...Congress in which are exhibited the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. These documents have for about 30 years been kept from the public because they were fading and deteriorating. They are now in a marble case, with a glass top and special film of gelatin to prevent harm from injurious light rays...