Word: hurtful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stand between Robinson and the welterweight (147 Ibs.) crown, describes his defeat with the uncompromising clarity of a man speaking from brutal experience: "He come at me with two punches, a left and a right. I didn't know which hit me first. The punches didn't hurt me, but when I started to move, my legs wouldn't go with me, and I fell over on my head...
...Hurt the enemy rather than gain ground...
There is no basic reason why Harvard should not go along. It certainly cannot be hurt by having three or four times as many exceptional applicants as places. Alumni scholarship committees, more and bigger publicity releases, March of Time productions, and the like are all methods of meeting a present need. They are symptoms of the University's attempt to maintain a policy which calls for a rational and cosmopolitan student body...
While some manufacturers stopped sales to price-cutters, the Senate Small Business Committee announced that it would investigate to see if the price war had hurt small businessmen. Actually, it seemed to have hurt few, helped many. In the first week of the price war, New York retail sales had soared 25% above last year-and that included the thousands of merchants who had stayed on the sidelines. Said Secretary-Treasurer George A. Renard of the National Association of Purchasing Agents: "This talk about injury to a competitor is the biggest hoax and hooey . . . Of course, competitors should be injured...
...became so fixed that life could depart from it, yet its magic suffered not, for man breaks his ideals and his gods but reluctantly, and a dead and meaningless symbol is better than no totem at all. And the very enthusiasm with which the artificial loyalty is buoyed does hurt to the reality and the force of the totem, stifling it and distorting its true sense...