Word: harmless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...University's School of Architecture to name himself and 25 fellow-students as senders of the "bomb." Haled into court to face charges of disorderly conduct, the 25 students sheepishly explained that they had merely wanted to have some fun, pointed out that the "bomb" was harmless. The white powder: sugar. Federal authorities scratched their heads, admitted that no statute forbids the mailing of junk, however fearfully disguised. To Chancellor Flint, who was vacationing with his wife in Miami, Fla. the School of Architecture closed the incident by sending a round-robin apology for the prank...
...Bolivian generals who lost the three-year Gran Chaco War for their country dropped into harmless obscurity after the Peace Without Victory wangled by seven American nations (TIME, June 24). Not so last week the Paraguayan colonels who won the war for theirs...
...substitute for novocain, although the public is using it widely to obtain temporary relief, when the dentist cannot be reached, particularly in rural districts. Naturally the dentists know this, but frown upon the practise because people will not see the dentist as often, as long as they have a harmless and convenient "pain killer" in their medicine chests...
...management process a tremendous potential momentum toward Inflation has been built up. If this force is not properly braked, most disinterested observers agree that the U. S. may go on a reckless ride which would make the boom of the 1920's seem like a harmless trolley trip. Indeed, there is some doubt whether the Board can keep this momentum Bunder control, because many of the inflationary threats lie not upon the records in its rented quarters across from the Treasury but in the cloak rooms of the Capitol. Last week inflationary sentiment in Congress burned brighter than...
...Novel. Central figure of Santayana's strange first novel is Oliver Alden, robust, grey-eyed, precociously-intelligent son of a wealthy, ambitionless New England family that has fallen into a vague and harmless melancholy. Oliver's father married only from a sense of duty, spends most of his time on his yacht, drifting about the world, while occasional intimations of his paganism and vice reach Great Falls, Conn., to scandalize the family and cloud the contentment of his wife. In a loveless household Oliver grows up, excels at games and studies without exerting himself, does not begin...