Word: harming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wrong. Perhaps there would be little use in preaching to them; and it is probable that the aggregate inability of mankind to reach a higher level is due less to deliberate wrongdoing than to the defects of men who mean on the whole to do right. Jonah did no harm in the parable because God disposed otherwise; he lost sight of his object, not because he could not see it, but because...
...campaign on this side of the water has not been marked by violence; but it has resulted in almost equal harm. The "banner blockade" of the British Embassy was at once futile and ridiculous. Recently the halls of Congress were invaded by women sympathizers of the Mason Bill, who heckled representatives from the floor and the gallery, until they were ejected by the guards. And of late opposition has appeared against allowing "British interests" to have any share in the Pilgrim Tercentenary...
...University have always had the utmost respect for President Eliot, who, by his actions and words has ever stood for the finer things, has ever proved himself one of the greatest of Harvard men. But we feel, nevertheless, that these recent utterances were ill advised and liable to harm the University...
...There is no greater question before the world today than how long supposedly free peoples are going to allow their governments to interfere with freedom as if we were still at war. That interference is doing every possible kind of harm. Among other things it continues to prevent the constructive forces in Russia from finding their own way, to solve their own difficulties...
...have here another vivid example of the harm done, when the League of Nations was abandoned by the United States. The tribunal derived its greatest power from the might of moral right. How could it fail to lose prestige when its chief exponent deserted it for avowedly materialistic, selfish reasons? But we shall some day learn our lesson, when we come to realize that whatever affects the world peace affects us. May we never have to learn this again by being dragged into a world-war! But find it out, we will. Then, in spite of our Lodges and Borahs...