Word: benignity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...whose influence is becoming 3% less benign...
Public violence flourishes in Mer Rouge and Harrison, where the benign sedatives dispensed by Zane Grey and Harold Bell Wright are comparatively scarce. The Klan riots in country towns, out of the route of the urban newspaper syndicates with their penny thrilllers every afternoon. And it is a notorious fact that crimes of passion and illicit intrigues are commoner, compared with the population, and more violent in rural communities than in the cities...
...tumor was of the benign type, four inches long by two inches wide and three quarters of an inch thick. This is believed to have been the first operation for brain tumor under, a local anaesthetic...