Word: harms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...debate over whether or not the College should institute a uniform rent system centers around the proposition that any other method would be obviously absurd for Quincy House. Upon examining the matter more closely, however, it is evident that such a uniform system would do far more harm than good...
...bloc in general and the Chinese Communists in particular. Speaking at the dedication of a new highway at Novo Mesto in northwest Yugoslavia, Tito likened the cries of "traitor" from Peking to the vilification heaped upon him by Nazi Propaganda Minister Paul Joseph Goebbels. "What," asked Tito, "is the harm in cooperation with Western countries? Are there only millionaires and rich people living in them? Are there not also farmers and workers? Why raise barriers, why seal oneself off from the British, the French, the Americans and the others? . . . We also cooperate with the Soviet Union, and we agree with...
...they are far from a dead issue. Already, unionists are getting set for a drive in Congress to outlaw state laws that forbid the union shop. The arguments over such laws have ranged all the way from the position of Labor Secretary James Mitchell that "they do more harm than good" to the stand of General Electric Chairman Ralph Cordiner, who says his company takes right-to-work laws into consideration as a plus factor when locating new plants. But the debate has been more emotional than factual. The big overlooked question: How do right-to-work laws work...
...this alone is a weak argument for abolishing them. Belabored with the charge of undemocracy, the club man will merely reply, "So what if I'm undemocratic. I've got a right to choose my circle of friends as long as I'm not doing anyone else any harm...
Curley's wit raises a question that still divides the faculty of the institution he so enjoyed baiting. Was he the colorful old rogue that he has been made lately, or did he do Boston irreparable harm? In his old age he certainly tried to give credence to the former view. Though he grouched about Joseph Dinneen's biography and Edwin O'Connor's novel, he seemed immensely to enjoy the renewed attention they brought him. He gave the books away with such genial inscriptions as may be found in Lamont's copy of The Purple Shamrock: "To Jack: From...