Word: harmful
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...achievement by the conference can be reached only by an aroused public opinion. This is partly true, but it is not enough that public opinion be aroused. It is first of all necessary that it should be informed, for an aroused and uninformed public opinion may do infinitely more harm than good...
Many an expert sociologist agrees with President Namm that the vast publicity given to employment-and-charity drives has done more harm than good. Intentions, of course, were to do good.-ED. Payment to Soldiers Sirs...
Obviously, the elections were carelessly and inefficiently handled. The Senior elections are the only ones in which any interest is shown, according to statistics. If, as the committee believes, the same men would be chosen in a second election, there would be no harm done and the winners can feel that they hold their offices as the accredited representatives of the class. There is no alternative...
...stock, it began to whirl through a period of expansion. Since May 1929 it has lost one-fourth of its deposits; its shares have tumbled from $91 to $13. Recently it has been understood that officials in Washington have been closely watching its affairs, perhaps anxious that no harm should befall a Manhattan bank whose name sounds so significant. While Bank of the United States deposits were dropping 25%, Manufacturers Trust's deposits slumped 15%. In Manufacturers Trust, Goldman Sachs Trading was likewise a dominant stockholder. Obviously complicated were the problems of determining the value of all four...
...American education. But the idle, or uninterested student will suffer if the recommendations are carried out. The slow, hard-working student, and the quick, expansive student will profit. The idle and the uninterested students are unproductive anyway; therefore the neglect will raise the standards, and do no great harm to them or to anyone else...