Word: hurtful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trips to the playground. A child threw a ball out of the lot, and the school director admonished the youngsters, telling them they might have injured a passerby. Robert immediately calculated the probable force with which the ball had struck the sidewalk, demonstrating that its velocity could not have hurt anyone. In high school, he learned calculus. He became interested in Greek, and within three months could read Sophocles without a dictionary...
STEEL BUYING is picking up on the off-chance of a strike by the C.I.O. Steelworkers, who will soon present new wage demands. Actually, neither industry nor labor feels that it would be much hurt by a short strike. High steel inventories would drop and Steelworkers, now working only part time, would not lose too much in wages. Final settlement will probably be around a 5?-an-hour increase in pay, including fringe benefits...
...reason for ICC. Instead of withering away, the ICC is now devoting much of its time to protecting the railroads from themselves. For example, 25% of the time at rate hearings is spent on the effect that an increase will have on the public, 75% on whether it will hurt rail traffic. The railroads would rather do away with such paternalism and let free competition take its course...
...professional courtesy whereby doctors treat each other and their families free has boomeranged and hurt the health of all concerned, Seattle's Dr. Merrill Shaw told the American Academy of General Practice. Physicians try not to bother their colleagues for minor ills or regular examinations, and often wait until it is too late. "If I had had a doctor who kept regular watch of me . . . my illness would have been detected long before I found it myself," he said. Dr. Shaw's plea had to be read in his absence: he is dying of cancer...
...yesterday's standings was Leverett House's drop to the second division. The Bunnies, football champions and runners-up to Dunster last fall, were expected to finish in the top half, especially after taking the basketball title last month. But relatively poor finishes in squash, hockey, and wrestling have hurt the Hutch in the standings...