Word: harms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Huxley short story and film before becoming a play. Its trick ironic plot still had a certain crude fascination on Broadway last week; and Huxley, turned playwright, was still plainly a man of parts. But The Gioconda Smile offered mournful proof of what the stage can do to harm a piece of writing and of how time can accentuate a writer's faults...
...policy of quietness on Chinese affairs for a few months will do no harm to our chances of ultimately achieving a U.N. Commission for Formosa. Unless that Commission is extremely popular, especially with such an excellent weathercock as India, we don't want to be in the forefront of a fight for it. If, however, the right countries are on our side, then our leadership will not be required...
Even if the men do not get the noncombatant jobs they had hoped for, their time will not have been wasted, Lunt said. "Russia is a country of 220 million people, with a culture vastly different from ours. It won't do these people a bit of harm to learn something about...
Apparently the plutonium does the bacteria no harm. If the bugs get too "hot," the sludge in which they live can be dried to a small volume and disposed of more easily than a pondful of dangerous water...
...resources in a production race with Russia. "We must see that our productive capacity grows rapidly," says Slichter. "An excess profits tax which discourages the growth of productive capacity ... could help us lose the contest. An excess profits tax could be devised that could do more harm than good-it is a tricky sort of business...