Word: harms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Some extremely dangerous drugs have been promoted for reducing, said Dr. Stormont. Thyroid extract, still popular with some physicians, should not be; it can do grave harm, and there is no reason for giving it, since an underactive thyroid is very rarely the cause of obesity. Also sharply condemned: other hormones, such as pituitary extract (they have nothing to do with overweight), laxatives and dinitrophenol (it raises the temperature so that "the obese are literally frying in their own fat," and it causes cataracts...
...glamour capital that would warm the heart of Congress. With this new move is going a nation-wide search for talent, and a general firing and salary cutting process that is shaking the foundations of many of Beverly Hills' swank shacks. The results can do the industry no harm. It has suffered a bad five years. Although slow to come back, this picture hints that its top technical skill, combined with some fresh imagination, will make the nation-wide habit of moviegoing once more a rewarding experience...
...major was outraged. She dispatched a series of protesting letters to Assistant Secretary of Defense Anna Rosenberg. "It is true," the Assistant Secretary wrote back, "that a woman could fulfill her obligations as a membeR of the organized reserve without harm to her relationship with her children. I fear it is not true, however, that a mother could be called to full-time active duty with the armed forces and transferred about the U.S. or . . . overseas, without . . . jeopardizing her children's welfare...
...satisfied that these men did not intend any harm. They are all without criminal records. Many have futures in which criminal records would be harmful. There has, of course, been much expense to the state already. I'm asking the court to forget that, too. I've spoken to the University deans and to Chief Patrick Ready. They have been in co-operation in the past. If this trial were to go on. It might cause a serious break between them...
Pope added that "these young men who are now forming their concepts of democracy and how it operates in the United States should be given every benefit of the doubt. There is no calculating the ultimate harm that might result from a conviction among a considerable group of university students that the police power in this country is the same as in an Iron Curtain country...