Word: harms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After sounding the usual professional notes of caution (a bungling hypnotist can do "irreparable harm," and no hypnotist should tackle a case on the borderline of severe mental illness), Dr. Schneck's contributors get down to cases...
...calling of students to testify points even more emphatically at the harm these hearings will do to American education. It is obvious that the Committee knows no crime the Lubell brothers have committed; if it did, they would be testifying before a genuine court of law, not Jenner's selfstyled jury. Instead, they probably engaged in leftist activities. Perhaps, they were stupid; perhaps, they joined some organizations with flashy liberal labels without considering their aims. They were, however, undergraduates whose emotions may have been stronger than their young intellects. In no way that we can see, does Jenner...
...reduce the volume (and hence, they hoped, the pressure) of their patient's blood. At this, West-of-Curtain doctors raised their eyebrows: the job could have been done better and more easily by the modern method of puncturing a vein. However, the bloodsucking creatures could do no harm, and the Russian physicians may have had a nonmedical reason for their use-it would convince even the most old-fashioned Russian that nothing had been left undone that might save Stalin...
...offshoot of Hinduism. Half the population of India were once Jains, but their numbers have now shrunk to a bare 1,500,000. They dwindled possibly because of the ritual difficulties of their religion, which favors a strict asceticism and holds, among other tenets, that a believer must not harm any living thing, even worms or small insects...
...feel that the actions of the Harvard-Radcliffe Graduate Student Council in the preparation of the discussion "Should Universities Be Investigated?" did irreparable harm to the cause of Harvard and other universities in the same position. By inviting Dirk Struik, the Council not only laid its flanks bare for outside attack, but also presented an intemperate extremist and a disappointing defender of academic freedom...