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Word: harms (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the seed sprouts, the young roots absorb the Thimet, and as the plant grows, the poison spreads through it without doing any harm. But insects that eat the plant or suck its juices die of their poisoned meal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Something for the Farmer | 1/2/1956 | See Source »

...note that Fund President Hutchins has confused liberty with license, is the "ponderous pixie" who uses endowment for current whims. Why not endow the study of the love life of lefthanded caterpillars? That would do no harm and would give employment to plenty of pixies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 19, 1955 | 12/19/1955 | See Source »

...have been "over-radiating," a radio term for sending out a signal more powerful than the FCC allows. Under a law passed in 1932, the FCC is given power to order any guilty station off the air, even if, as in WHRB's case, it is doing no appreciable harm...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Radiation Poisoning | 12/16/1955 | See Source »

Analyst Ostow answered his own question: "Possibly." In any case, he was certain, telling the world about the death instinct could do no harm. But he was more hopeful than his hearers. Snapped leading Manhattan Freudian Dr. Lawrence S. Kubie: "We don't need instincts to explain the phenomena of cruelty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Thanatopsis, 1955 | 12/12/1955 | See Source »

Calling the move "one of the stupidest things the Air Force has ever done," an officer who refused to be named said the disbanding will harm the service in the long run. "The Air Force needs and wants to have a many people as possible conscious of air power. The dissolvement of the units, however, can only cause graduates of schools like Harvard to be more Army and Navy conscious and less Air Force conscious," the officer said...

Author: By Bernard M. Gwertzman, | Title: Students, Staff Criticize AFROTC Termination | 12/8/1955 | See Source »

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