Word: harming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...CRIMSON has upon occasion surmised, the blanket application of the Reading Period to whole departments works a good deal of harm to undergraduates. An obvious case is the History of British Foreign Policy 1814-1914, where the Reading Period means not only losing the delights of episodes like Pilgerstein vs the Angel, but also relying on reading which is pathetically inadequate. A welcome exception to such instances has arisen in Greek B. A section faced with the prospect of tackling a new poet at practically each reading appealed in perplexity to its instructor to give some introduction of the strange...
...Washington, last week, Walter H. Girdler, president of Helium Co., appeared before the Government's new helium committee (Secretaries Adams, Good, Lament) to protest that Government manufacture of helium in competition with private industry is contrary to U. S. policy and precedent, that it threatens harm to commercial aeronautics...
Last week Dr. Percy W. Toombs of Memphis, Tenn., reported the known data in the American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology. In brief they are: 1) X-ray-ing for a few seconds to get a photograph does not harm the unborn child, unless photographs are taken too frequently; 2) X-ray or radium doses strong enough to cause sterility or to destroy tumors cause abortions during the early months of pregnancy, or during the end of term monstrosities (of eyes, brain or spinal cord); 3) the younger the embryo, the greater the damage done...
...offensive term!" cried anguished Sir Austen. "A most offensive term about a friendly nation - our nearest neighbor - describing them as 'bilkers!' An offensive slang term from the gutter! ... I say deliberately that no worse day's work has been done in any Parliament! Nor any greater harm!" Sir Austen seemed actually beside himself with grief and shame. "Bilkers!" his French friends had been called "Bilkers! !" As other Conservatives followed the Foreign Secretary, all flaying Mr. Snowden and all greatly exaggerating his slip, he became positively livid with rage. "I retract not a word! I refuse to apologize...
...eyed marines by June 1. It is common knowledge that Japan has financed and favored Marshal Chang, the captor of Chefoo, but it would be news indeed if the Imperial Government con- siders Chang already strong enough to see that Japanese interests and colonists in Shantung come to no harm during the present civil...