Word: harms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Council's ill-advised poling plans. The idea of a poll to determine how many students thought their professors were indoctrinating them to communism was nursed carefully through two meetings and seemed to have Council support. It was only after the Council's executives awoke to the possible harm in such a poll that the plan was dropped, again at the cost of Council prestige. At the same time the troublesome Academic Freedom Committee was formally dissolved...
...traffic laws. They speed, forget to signal, pass stop lights and obstruct fireplugs when they park. But their growing numbers do not make their crimes 'all right' . . . Sexual behavior, like any other kind, must be tested for Tightness or wrongness by your own conscience. Will it harm your community? Your family? You yourself? Then it is wrong, and you cannot make it right by proving that 50% of the population does likewise...
...give & take interviews may suffice. The older the boy and the more deep-rooted the habit, the longer the treatment and the less the chances of success. Some who will not give up the habit can be helped to adjust to society so that they will do no further harm to others...
...very abundance of modern insecticides often defeats their purpose, and trigger-happy spray gun wielders can do more harm than good. By way of example, said the University of California's A. E. Michelbacher, the practice of dousing walnut trees with DDT to control the codling moth has resulted in plagues of frosted scale and spider mites, organisms which might normally have graced a few codling moths' dinner tables...
Watson said, however, that he had told Cameron that, in his opinion, Lattimore's appearance would be more "harm than help to Harvard." "At the present time, with Harvard in the limelight, the Council could get another speaker who would contribute as much to the discussion on China and would not bring added unfavorable publicity to the College," Watson added...