Word: harming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...which to pour the vials of its wrath, and it readily found a visible symbol in the person of Judge Landis, high commissioner of baseball. Upon his head an angry and tumultuous crowd of between 5000 and 8000 poured invective after invective, and if Judge Landis escaped without bodily harm, it was due to no excess of charity on the part of the crowd that surrounded...
...honest solely because it is the best business policy is honest only from a broad perception of his own material interest, not from any moral principle. If placed in a position where a dishonest act would yield a profit and could never be discovered, or do him any worldly harm, he would have no reason, drawn from the best policy principle, to shun the dishonest act. That is if he had no sense of an inherent moral motive for being honest...
Until definite reduction is made, every man who is receiving money because of athletic ability alone should be declared ineligible; and in the meantime it would do no harm if newspapers, some alumni, and others who thrive on rumor would stop yapping...
...from cutting down to two meals a day--if he wants to. All science, economics, and efficiency suggest it. But one is tempted to respect the old story of the economical farmer and his cow. Finding by accident that a little sawdust mixed in her daily bran did no harm, he gradually increased the proportion of sawdust. Everything worked like a charm, --but the cow died...
...publicity it could get, and that this publicity had made football what it was, even the Yale game. In reply I said that in my opinion the exaggerated publicity given to football by the news papers was the worst feature about the game and was doing more harm than any other one thing, and to emphasize my feeling said in a joking way that I would personally give $100 to each of them if they would promise not to publish a word about the Yale game during the whole season...