Word: hurtful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Under the Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act, as renewed and amended in 1951, the Tariff Commission must investigate all requests for higher duties. When the level of any import reaches a so-called "peril point" (i.e., threatens to hurt domestic producers), tariffs must be automatically raised...
...right-handed Andy Ward will probably de the pitching for the freshmen. Ward pitched a two hitter in the season's opener against Boston Teacher's College, but was hurt by wildness and poor support in his second outing, a 15 to 8 loss to the Brown freshmen...
...inexpensive blanket plan that would insure players up to $5,000. The proposal calls for a $250 deductible insurance policy that would cost one dollar per year for each athlete. Under the group plan the premiums would be paid by the school, and it would cover any athlete hurt in collegiate practice, games, or travel. The group plan is optional and is being explained to members of the NCAA by mail...
When Jude the Obscure appeared, the Victorian public howled with stuck prudishness. "Jude the Obscene," cried one reviewer. The Bishop of Wakefield publicly burned his copy-only, snapped Hardy, because he could not burn the author. But Hardy was hurt more than he admitted. Even before Jude, he had written in his journal: "If this sort of thing continues, no more novel-writing...
...Harvard's academic and scholarly achievement, but the gullible average reader is more apt to remember the little pranks and foolish escapades of several students. It is not only this face-slapping record. It is an accumulation of all the trivial stunts of students through the years that can hurt a college's reputation. That includes the water-bomb incidents, the disengaged trolley wires, goldfish swallowing, etc. Things like that give the public the impression that colleges are nothing but kindergartens in which well-to-do young men idle away their time...